Toad Hollow Vineyards

1999 Francine’s Selection North Coast Chardonnay

Wishing For Chardonnay…

It’s time to let the Chardonnay genie out of the bottle. For too many months you’ve been asked to go slow and suffer the slings and arrows of the shortage of our Chardonnay. First it was a gentle slow down, and then a more firm braking action. Finally, alas, a panic stop with the appropriate apologies. But, never the less the final discouraging word: "There is no more." We were faced with a parched Chardonnay landscape.

Well, the wait is over at long last. We have bottled our new Chardonnay. It is the best Chardonnay of our career. It has a gentle, steely center and a flutey acidity that wiggles unadulterated by a wooden forest marching across your palate. The gate is now open and the Chardonnay flows freely across the land. We’re so glad it’s back. And we know you are too.

We’ve asked the Chardonnay genie for the traditional three wishes: #1, let us have enough to last through September; #2, that there would be a soupsôn left for continued pleasures and merriment; and #3, maybe hopefully to finish the holidays and foster fond memories.

As we watch the new leaves push through their embryonic and hopeful new buds, we know that the Chardonnay will continue to flow through our vineyards and will never be stilled for long. Chardonnay is a force of nature.

Pertinent facts:

Alcohol: 13.70%
RS: 0.20% (g/100ml)
TA: 0.45 g/100ml
pH: 3.51

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