The bad news: we have no more Chardonnay to drink (Rosemary is very sad) and no more to sell. Since our launch of Silverpoint Cellars in 2008, we store all our bottled wines at a professional storage facility in Sonoma. I’ve contacted them several times over the last 2 months saying “is there any of our Chardonnay remaining from any of our vintages”? “No”, they apologetically answer.
The good news: on Friday of this week, we bottled our 2019 Chardonnay and our 2018 Napa Valley Red Wine. We stole a bottle of the Chardonnay off the conveyor belt and gave it a quick taste. Wow! Clean, fresh, lively …. and delicious. Our winemaker, Don Van Staaveren, was with us. He went out on a limb to say that this “is likely the best Chardonnay ever produced by Silverpoint Cellars.” Don doesn’t say these kind of things easily or frequently. But, we agree with him.
These newly bottled wines are now headed to storage to rest and mature a bit for the next 6 months. Look for this Chardonnay in September!