ACCOLADES

96+ WINE ADVOCATE

The 2021 Chardonnay Hope Well Vineyard is generous and exotic, featuring green tropical fruit on the nose and streaks of flint. The palate is satiny and mouth-coating without sacrificing energetic acidity, and it has a very long, flinty finish.

WINE TECHNICALS

Certified Organically Grown
Fruit source: Hope Well Vineyard Wente clone
Harvest date: September 12, 2021
Grapes at harvest: Brix 21.7, pH 3.19, TA 8.7 gr/liter
Finished wine: Alcohol 13.4 %, pH 3.28, TA 7.1 gr/liter
135 cases produced
Bottled unfined February 13, 2023 

WINEMAKER NOTES

This is the first and probably last of its kind under the Bethel Heights label. It was a real honor to be able to work with the Hope Well Vineyard Chardonnay for the one year it was available to me. Grafted in 2019 to cuttings taken from our old Wente clone vines at Bethel Heights, we didn’t know what to expect from such a late ripening clone on a precocious slope, but the resulting wine held up a mirror to our own Wente, a textural wonder with tree and stone fruits over a vibrant core of acidity. 

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