Sheehan shares this great vineyard with Williams-Selyem, Flowers and Littorai among others. It was planted in the 1960s.
The Wine Enthusiast rates this outstanding, saying:
This is a big, toasty, buttery wine that is also nicely balanced by vivid fruit flavors and acidity. It shows a blend of citrus and pineapple with light baking spices and accents of both cream and vanilla.
And also from John Gilman:
Sam Sheehan’s 2018 Manchester Ridge bottling of chardonnay is nicely ripe at 13.6 percent octane, but still bright and zesty on both the nose and palate. The bouquet offers up a youthful blend of pear, quince, salty soil tones, corn flowers, citrus zest and a whisper of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied, focused and nascently complex, with a fine core of fruit, good soil signature, bouncy acids and lovely length and grip on the primary, but quite promising finish. Though this is certainly drinkable today, I would opt to give it a few years in the cellar and let its secondary layering of complexity emerge. (Drink between 2023-2035)
