Chalk Hill Chardonnay Sonoma Coast 2024

Our 2024 Sonoma Coast Chardonnay offers a bright, lively profile. Aromas and flavors Fuji apple, lemon curd, honeydew melon, toasty oak, and baking spices are complemented by flinty minerality and a touch of nutmeg.

Since 1972, Chalk Hill has been committed to creating terroir-driven wines of character, richness and elegance from Sonoma County’s rolling hills. With a passionate dedication to chardonnay, we showcase the incredible diversity of our estate vineyards to make the best quality wines possible with a vision for generations to come. While our estate vineyards are the cornerstone of our identity, our Sonoma Coast Chardonnay allows us to create wines of elegance with an expanded palette of exceptional cool-climate fruit. The 2024 vintage features Chardonnay from the Wobkin, Ramal, Chalk Ridge, Rail Road, and various Russian River Valley vineyards. By blending fruit from diverse, individual sites with varying growing conditions, we are able to craft a wine that offers outstanding complexity, consistency and value.

The 2024 growing season conditions were great from the start. Abundant rainfall and consistent weather patterns kept the vineyards on an ideal schedule, allowing for optimal fruit development. The fruit for this wine was picked at night into 1/2 ton marco bins, whole-cluster pressed, and cold settled (chilled) over night at 50 degrees. The next day, nutrients were added and fermentation with French oak commenced. Once dry, the wine was inoculated for malolactic fermentation. Weekly stirring throughout malolactic fermentation imparted beautiful texture and fullness to the wine.

Harvest Dates: September 13 - October 4, 2024
Average Brix at Harvest: 24.5

The wine was aged sur lie in 23% new French oak for 9 months.

Regular Bâtonnage; 70% Malolactic Fermentation
Cooperage: 100% French oak, 23% new
Barrel Aging: 9 months Sur Lie

Chalk Hill is the only 100% estate winery in the Chalk Hill/Russian River Valley AVA in Sonoma County. Founded in 1972, Chalk Hill’s unique topography and climactic and geological diversity allow both Burgundian and Bordeaux varieties to produce world class wines on the Estate. Chalk Hill has been a leader in clonal research for many years and each unique vineyard plot is meticu-lously matched to the grape variety and clone to which it is best suited. Indeed the winery’s famed Estate Chardonnay is made from the Chalk Hill clone, which was developed at the winery. The quest for quality is the basis for all viticultural and winemaking decisions at Chalk Hill Estate. Wine-maker Courtney Foley uses light-handed techniques that allow each bottle to express the essence of the vineyard.