Whitcraft, Santa Maria Valley Tinaquaic Vineyard Chardonnay, 2023

Name: Whitcraft, Santa Maria Valley Tinaquaic Vineyard Chardonnay, 2023
Brand: Langdon Shiverick [LAS]
SKU: NYC-LAS-`WHIT2344`-062226-3
Price: 59.99 USD
Availability: InStock

White Wine from California, United States

by Whitcraft

$59.99

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Tinaquaic is one of Santa Maria Valley's old-guard sites — Foxen's estate vineyard at Rancho Tinaquaic, first planted in 1989 and dry-farmed since 1991 — and, unusually for California, it's dry-farmed, forcing the vines to send roots deep and self-regulate their crop. That old-vine, no-irrigation character is the whole point of this bottling. Santa Maria's transverse valley funnels cold ocean air far inland, giving one of the longest, coolest growing seasons in California and Chardonnay with real tension. Drake Whitcraft, at the low-fi Santa Barbara winery his late father Chris founded, makes it with a deliberately light touch: native fermentation, older oak rather than new, minimal sulfur, unfined and unfiltered. The result is a Chardonnay that trades weight for cut and detail.

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Antonio Galloni

96 points

"The 2023 Chardonnay Tinaquaic Vineyard, labeled with Whitcraft's original 1980s label design, is impressively concentrated. It conveys the intensity of dry-farmed old vines in their ability to yield resonant, crystal-clear fruit. The 2023 is creamy and grippy, weightless and fleshed out, lifted and deep—a wine of beautiful contrasts. Mineral density builds with air as the 2023 sits in the glass, revealing layers of citrus oil, orchard fruit and crushed rocks. Just 100 cases of this beauty exist, but it's not to be missed." —Billy Norris

Robert Parker

94 points

"The most complete of the Whitcraft Chardonnays is the 2023 Chardonnay Tinaquiac Vineyard, which opens with a strikingly pure, expressive bouquet that melds floral, nutty, creamy and citrus tones with increasing nuance and depth as it opens in the glass. The palate offers a similarly complex texture that balances a tensile, elastic energy with a broad yet lifted mouthfeel. It releases into a distinctly saline and bracingly bright finish, welcomingly padded with enough depth to avoid austerity as it lingers with the same nuanced purity first observed on the nose." —Matthew Luczy