2024 Peay Vineyards Richardson Chardonnay, West Sonoma Coast
The nose features typical lemon curd notes with some spearmint and thyme. The texture on the palate is silky with an oatmeal biscuit flavor creeping in kept fresh and lively by a metallic, oyster shell-like minerality on the long finish. This is a lovely expression of Chardonnay and has a little less of the richness found in the 2023 with the structure to age for a decade or longer.
We released our first Richardson Vineyard Chardonnay - the excellent 2023 - last spring.
A dozen years ago we gave budwood from our favorite blocks of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay to the Richardson family who owns the land across the ridge from us and they
planted a few acres for us. The second vintage delivers even further on the promise of
the site and is quintessentially a West Sonoma Coast AVA Chardonnay in expression.
The nose features the typical lemon curd notes I noted above along with some spearmint and thyme. The texture on the palate is silky with an oatmeal biscuit flavor creeping in kept fresh and lively by a metallic, oyster shell-like minerality on the long finish. This is a lovely expression of Chardonnay and has a little less of the richness found in the 2023 with the structure to age for a decade or longer.