🏰news | features + short tasting note IN ENGLISH 【A singular and outstanding Sonoma Coast Chardonnay from Peay Vineyards, praised for its mineral intensity, silky texture, and remarkable aging potential, reflecting its cold, moderate climate terroir.】 Peay Vineyards is located on the West Sonoma Coast, where cold, moderate weather allows for late harvest and grapes with abundant acidity. They employ traditional Burgundian winemaking methods, including primary fermentation in barrel, secondary (malolactic) fermentation to soften and add texture, and stirring of yeast (battonage) to enhance silkiness. The wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered. The Estate Chardonnay is made from old Wente clone vines. The 2021 vintage shows real refinement and complexity. This wine offers intense aromas of yellow apple, pastry, dried hay, and almonds. The light-bodied palate begins with shimmery acidity and rocky tones, evolving into creamier, biscuity notes, with a powerful, expansive finish. It's an elegant wine with hints of tangerine peel, spice, mint, lemon confit, and a touch of French oak, showcasing vibrancy, mid-weight, marvelous tension, and focus. Inviting aromas of unripe pear and lemon blossoms set the stage for flavors of green almonds, marzipan, yeast, and chamomile notes that linger in a long, salivating aftertaste. It sings of mineral intensity, with saline salt air and briny notes of grilled lemon peel, a silken mouthfeel, and lithe energy. Flavors include key lime, lemon curd, verbena, lemongrass, and oyster shell, finishing with crushed slate minerality. 🍴 Chinese Cantonese food pairing various types of suggestion east or west corresponding to wine cost IN ENGLISH Its lean yet complex style would pair well with roasted chicken, grilled fish, shellfish, creamy pasta dishes, and aged hard cheeses. 🥂 fit for event suggestion IN ENGLISH This wine drinks beautifully now but will come into its own in a year or two as youthful aromas coalesce and become harmonious. It will improve with age, becoming more integrated and nuanced with a few years, and can evolve for at least a decade from release. Recommended drinking window over the next 10-12 years.