2019 Hirsch Vineyards Chardonnay Sonoma Coast California USA
$64.99 USD
Winemaker Notes
2018 was one of the coolest growing seasons in the last decade. A foggy mid-summer gave way at the perfect time to sunny, breezy weather with remarkably cool temperatures. These ideal conditions gifted us with a long maturation period, resulting in wines of elegance, freshness and fruit concentration. The 2018 Chardonnay has a fresh, laser-like acidity, backed by the depth and texture that define this wine.
Critical Acclaim
This is among the best Hirsch chardonnays we’ve tasted, a wine with an ornate, almost baroque complexity woven out of fruit grown on the sandstone ridge along the San Andreas fault. It offers a completely different kind of complexity and depth of flavor than a great Burgundy—California coastal casual, yet precise. If you were to travel to David Hirsch’s remote vineyard and feel the blast of the Pacific winds against the ridge as you stand alongside the vines he planted in 1994 on a steep, rocky slope facing directly toward the sea, you might begin to sense the pure, terroir-driven nature of this wine. Along with fruit from those 2.5 acres, this wine includes Hirsch’s younger block of chardonnay, also west-facing, 1.4 acres planted in 2002 on a nearby sandstone hillside. The cool 2018 season produced a chardonnay that defies oxidation, still beautiful a week after it was first opened, destined to thrive for decades.
Rated 96 Points Wine & Spirits Magazine
A wonderfully crafted chardonnay with lemon rind, cooked apple, lemon and lemon curd. Mineral and stone character throughout. It’s full-bodied, yet vertical and deep on the palate. Takes you down deep and energizes you. Extremely well done. Drink or hold.
Rated 96 Points James Suckling
2018 was one of the coolest growing seasons in the last decade. A foggy mid-summer gave way at the perfect time to sunny, breezy weather with remarkably cool temperatures. These ideal conditions gifted us with a long maturation period, resulting in wines of elegance, freshness and fruit concentration. The 2018 Chardonnay has a fresh, laser-like acidity, backed by the depth and texture that define this wine.
Critical Acclaim
This is among the best Hirsch chardonnays we’ve tasted, a wine with an ornate, almost baroque complexity woven out of fruit grown on the sandstone ridge along the San Andreas fault. It offers a completely different kind of complexity and depth of flavor than a great Burgundy—California coastal casual, yet precise. If you were to travel to David Hirsch’s remote vineyard and feel the blast of the Pacific winds against the ridge as you stand alongside the vines he planted in 1994 on a steep, rocky slope facing directly toward the sea, you might begin to sense the pure, terroir-driven nature of this wine. Along with fruit from those 2.5 acres, this wine includes Hirsch’s younger block of chardonnay, also west-facing, 1.4 acres planted in 2002 on a nearby sandstone hillside. The cool 2018 season produced a chardonnay that defies oxidation, still beautiful a week after it was first opened, destined to thrive for decades.
Rated 96 Points Wine & Spirits Magazine
A wonderfully crafted chardonnay with lemon rind, cooked apple, lemon and lemon curd. Mineral and stone character throughout. It’s full-bodied, yet vertical and deep on the palate. Takes you down deep and energizes you. Extremely well done. Drink or hold.
Rated 96 Points James Suckling