Sonoma Coast’s New Style of High-Acid Chardonnays
Sonoma Coast producers are embracing a new style of Chardonnay driven by complexity and acidity.
USA, Sonoma: Wayfarer
"This is unquestionably a winery to start following."
– Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Advocate
Wayfarer Vineyard: Winery of the Year | 2015
Winery of the Year 2015, Doug Wilder, pdwr
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Press
Sonoma Coast’s New Style of High-Acid Chardonnays
Wine Enthusiast,
May 2018
Top 100 Napa and Sonoma Wines of 2017
JamesSuckling.com,
January 4, 2018
Reviews
Wine
2014 Pinot Noir Paige's Ridge
2013 Pinot Noir Paige's Ridge
2012 Pinot Noir Paige's Ridge
96 points
Virginie Boone, Wine Enthusiast, September 2016
Floral in aromas and yet darkly savory in cherry and clove, this full-bodied wine holds layered acidity and balanced oak at its core. It hails from one block of the vineyard and spent time in entirely new French oak. Baked raspberry tart finds a happy companion in the richness of maple and velvety tannin. Drink now through 2024.
95 points
Doug Wilder, Purely Domestic Wine Report, March 2015
The nose is gorgeously deep and complex showing licorice, blackberry, cherry, mint, red apple and rhubarb. The palate entry shows polished flavors of apple, cherry and spice with plenty of vitality and structure. Fall 2015 release. Drink 2017 – 2024.
93 points
Virginie Boone, Wine Enthusiast, February 2015
From one block of the estate vineyard planted exclusively to Dijon clone 667, Paige’s is deep and dark in color, intense in oak and earthiness, almost a quarter of it undergoing whole cluster fermentation. As intense on the palate as it is darkly hued, it offers brambly blackberry and dark cherry around a core of wild Tahitian vanilla and cinnamon-cardamom spice.
