The Chardonnay grapes are sourced from two vineyards in the Napa Valley – one in Los Carneros and the other in St. Helena. The cooler Carneros site imparts this wine with fresh green apple and Bartlett pear on the nose, while the warmer St. Helena site lends some tropical notes. The Carneros vineyard also gives this wine a beautiful, bright, lively acidity, which is balanced by the creamy, rich texture of the St. Helena fruit. The touch of oak gives this Chardonnay some layers on the nose and palate with traces of vanilla, flint, and spice.
The palate is rich and opulent with fresh fruit flavors of blackberry and raspberry, layered with chocolate and warming spice.
layers of aromatics ranging from black cherry, plum, and raspberry to graham cracker, vanilla, butterscotch, and sweet hickory smoke. These flavors extend to the palate, which has a rich and silky entry with bright acidity and firm structure, resulting in great tension, balance, and persistence on the finish.
The impeccable 2015 vintage blessed both of PlumpJack's Napa Valley vineyard sources, Hudsonin Carneros and Stagecoach on Atlas Peak, that yield fruit for the 2015 PlumpJack Syrah. The cool, foggy Hudson Vineyard imparts this wine with a smoky, bacon aromas layered with white and black pepper along with some floral notes, while the sunny and rocky Stagecoach Vineyard expresses the typicity and elegance of mountain fruit - powerful and focused, with a bouquet of blackberry, fresh boysenberry and warm huckleberry pie. On the palate, the Hudson vineyard brings beautiful, bright raspberries, freshly-cracked black pepper, followed by lively acid, whereas the Stagecoach Vineyard adds dark fruit flavors, pronounced concentration and a formidable structure.