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Sleepy Hollow Vineyard® consistently produces Chardonnay fruit with intense tropical fruit character and minerality, exhibiting both richness and finesse. To further enhance quality, winemaker and vineyard manager Sam Balderas keeps yields low to increase concentration, and minimizes the handling of the wine to preserve the fruit’s natural essence. Selected from distinctive blocks of the acclaimed Sleepy Hollow Vineyard, the fruit for this wine is 100 percent barrel fermented in French oak and aged a minimum of 12 months on the lees to achieve a rich, toasty, complex character.

This wine offers aromas of apple, mango, fig and guava. The medium to full-bodied palate maintains impressive balance and flavor concentration, so it will hold its own with rich foods. The flavors of tropical and ripe stone fruits complement its acidity, and the finish is rich and long.

Fresh aromas of lime zest, nectarine, peach and apple combined with the perfumed vanilla and toasted oak. The flavors are very clean with peach, nectarine and citrus with subtle butter and vanilla toastiness, producing layers of complexity with an excellent balance of fresh fruit acidity and palate-weight.

The 30-year-old Cold Creek Vineyard turns out big, round, lush Cold Creek Chardonnays, characterized by crisp apple and citrus aromas and flavors. The warm site and low-yielding old vines produce concentrated, powerful fruit and wines with a rich mouthfeel and great aging potential.

Rises out of the glass with intense apple, ripe pear and sweet lemon drop scents complemented by toasty oak, spice and butter notes from barrel and malolactic fermentation. The palate is bright and juicy, with rich, ripe, apple and pear flavors a long, fresh aftertaste. The texture is silky-smooth, with a creaminess achieved by hand-stirring the lees in barrels during the sur lie aging.

Located in Washington state's newest AVA, Horse Heaven Hills, our vineyard at Canoe Ridge Estate consistently produces an elegant, refined Chardonnay due to the moderating influence of the Columbia River. This 2004 bottling exhibits ripe apple and cinnamon spice aromas with an elegant, lingering, sweet citrus finish.