Black Kite Chardonnay

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Typically $48/bottle from Black Kite Cellars
Vintage 2016 from the Santa Lucia Highlands
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About Black Kite Cellars: “Black Kite Cellars is a small, family-owned and operated winery. Since our founding in 2003 we have committed ourselves to making the finest site-specific Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from great vineyards along the California coast. With the third generation now becoming involved, we intend to continue this journey for many years to come.”

High as a Kite

TASTING NOTES:
“In 2016, the longer growing season and extra time on the vine amplified the signature richness and intensity of the Soberanes Vineyard. Our 2016 Soberanes Vineyard Chardonnay is a sumptuous melange of baked apple, white peach, fig and pear, made more complex by notes of sweet oak and almond paste. Mid-palate, the wine expands, offering extraordinary richness and texture lifted by a wonderful acid tension. An interesting hint of pine nuts lingers on the very long finish.” (AbV 14.1%, pH 3.35, TA 0.72 g/L)

BARRELS: 10 months in French oak, 50% new.

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TANGENTIALLY RELATED FACT to help you make conversation over this wine:
Did you know that people have been known to not only fly kites but fly on kites? Probably. Considering things like gliders exist. Paragliding. And every form of transportation that utilizes the wind and a stretch of some fabric-type material. But before the advent of planes and dirigibles and the like, you put people on kites. Need to survey the land? Strapped to a kite. Need a bird’s eye view of the battlefield? Strapped to a kite. Want to execute people? Strapped to a kite. The early Chinese were truly kite auteurs. Emperor of the Northern Qi, a man by the name of Gao Yang, strapped prisoners to kites. Well, bamboo matts. Basically kites. Only one guy survived. But then they decided to starve him to death in a prison. Emperor of Northern Qi Gao Yang was kind of a piece of shit.

Black Kite Chardonnay

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