Dierberg Chardonnay, Sta. Rita Hills 2018

this Chardonnay from our Drum Canyon vineyard takes more thought and effort. It gets stinky and tempt your patience. We’ve learned our role is to wait on it no matter how disgruntled. it seems in youth.It is also finicky with acid. While it comes in with a healthy amount that promotes freshness and requires some secondary fermentation to balance, much of that acid is malic acid which makes the amount of secondary fermentation-due to potential big pH shifts when the malic gets converted-more challenging to discern. Great depth with texture, incredible length with its trademark salty quality.