Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Sparkling Chardonnay Trout Gulch Vyd 2024 champagne-club cocoa and almond

cocoa and almond

The result is a distinctly Californian take on a great Italian grape - structured

this is “a delicious everyday red” and “a fabulous value in handcrafted

Fratelli Alessandria's traditional approach (whole-berry fermentation with 25-30 days of maceration) and 25-hectoliter cask aging for three years builds a wine that's refined without sacrificing power

is a profound testament to the power of Ponce's 40 year old

Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Sparkling Chardonnay Trout Gulch Vyd 2024 champagne-club cocoa and almondA sparkling Chardonnay from Trout Gulch, the old vineyard near Aptos that Richard Alfaro has farmed for over fifteen years and that supplies some of the Santa Cruz Mountains' most distinctive Chardonnay. Picked early to preserve acidity, the wine has the cool climate cut and green apple snap you want from a sparkler but with a real sense of place. It's a useful house bubbly: dry, salty, and food friendly without the price tag of Champagne.