2023 Piper Sonoma Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast, USA
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Piper Sonoma
2023 Piper Sonoma Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast, USA
On the Sonoma Coast, this still Chardonnay opens on "honeysuckle and white apple blossoms," then moves into ripe apple and pear. Oak leaves "toasty marshmallow and graham cracker" on the finish, and that finish runs long.
When the Piper house sets a still Chardonnay on the Sonoma Coast, what are you waiting for?
"The house was built for bubbles, and this still Chardonnay keeps the same coast."
This is the 750 ml from the Sonoma Coast. ShopWineSlash has the bottle at $15.
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Twelve bottles ship free in the lower 48. Hawaii and Alaska ship on the zone rate.
Piper Sonoma, from Folio Fine Wine. The film is the sparkling house in Sonoma. It is not a tasting of this still Chardonnay.
A sparkling house, and a still coast
The Marquis d'Aulan family, descendants of the Piper family, founded the house in Healdsburg in 1980 and built it as a Sonoma sparkling house. The still Chardonnay comes off the same coast. The Greene, Young, and Ledbetter families have farmed with the house for more than three decades. Many of the vineyards sit on western-facing slopes, the rows running east and west, in the afternoon breeze and the evening sun. The farming is sustainable, with no-till ground, organic fertilizers, and composted grape material.
The rows on the slope, with the fog on the water, are that coast in the evening light.
Barrel fermented, one third new oak
The fruit is hand-picked and pressed as whole clusters. Each parcel ferments on its own. Fermentation happens in barrel, and the malolactic runs alongside it. The wine then ages in French oak, one third of it new. It is closed with a screw cap.
The pale oak in the stone room is the cellar where that barrel work happens.
Winemaker Keith Hock introduces Piper Sonoma. The film is the sparkling house, not a tasting of this still Chardonnay.
Lemon rosemary chicken, then herb potatoes
A lemon and rosemary chicken in the pan meets the apple and the blossom. A roast chicken with herb potatoes meets the toasty oak and the long finish.
These plates follow the fruit and the oak already in the glass.
Lemon rosemary chicken
Two chicken breasts in a skillet, with lemon wedges and rosemary in the pan sauce.
Why it works: The lemon and the rosemary meet the apple blossom and the pear.
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Herb potato roast chicken
A whole roast chicken with golden potato wedges and thyme on the tray.
Why it works: The roasted potato and the thyme meet the toasty oak.
View Recipe for Herb potato roast chicken (opens in a new tab)Take the bottle home.
"The house was built for bubbles, and this still Chardonnay keeps the same coast."
Piper Sonoma Chardonnay from the Sonoma Coast, vintage 2023, in the 750 ml. The bottle is only $15. Add it.
