Durell has been the source behind some of the highest-rated and most sought after Chardonnay wines in California. This famed vineyard offers low yields, and its small bunches provide robust flavors, complexity, and texture. This wine is a made from 100% Old Wente clone from two blocks of the famous Durell Vineyard. The Hill block was planted in the 90’s and gives very low yields of small clusters with prominent hen and chick berries. These small bunches provide extraordinary flavors, complexity, and texture. Each lot was harvested separately at night when the fruit was cold, and then whole cluster pressed immediately to extract only the highest quality juice. This wine is lively and exotic. It is truly a Chardonnay lover’s Chardonnay.
Accolades
95 points – Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
95 points – Wine Enthusiast
90 points – Wine Spectator
Durell Vineyard
Sonoma Coast
More than 25 wines from Durell Vineyard have earned 92+ points, making the site one of Sonoma County’s most sought-after vineyards. Durell sits on the southeastern edge of the Sonoma Coast appellation–thirty miles east of the Pacific Ocean, 10 miles north of the northern stretches of San Francisco Bay, and just south of a 2,400-foot mountain range.