2022 Summer Dreams ‘The Sun Also Rises’ Chardonnay Sonoma Coast

JD98 Also awesome, the 2022 Chardonnay The Sun Also Rises is a richer, opulent style Chardonnay that brings a sensational array of honeyed orange, flowers, blanched almond, and classy oak. It’s full-bodied, has remarkable purity, ample background oak, and a great, great finish.
DEC96 The moment it was made public, I immediately locked down the copyright to Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises’, says Hundred Acre’s Jayson Woodbridge. Four years ago, he also purchased Peterson Ranch on the West Sonoma Coast, a western-facing hillside site farmed by Jim Barbour. This wine is aged in high-grade stainless steel, expensive new French oak barriques, and pink-staved acacia wood. Captivating ripe apricot and ginger aromatics mingle with white pepper and unctuous orchard fruits. It is medium to full-bodied and boasts a bracing backbone of acidity, making it one of the best California Chardonnays to enjoy while reading Hemingway. It transports you into a dreamy trance, much like the famous writer’s prose—it gets your head spinning.