Ventana is known as “the most award winning single-vineyard in California.”
The winery says:
Known for being a world-renowned Chardonnay growing climate thanks to a long and cool growing season with sun, fog, and mid-afternoon winds, the Arroyo Seco AVA in Monterey County, CA continues to produce top wines. Ventana leads the way in defining great Chardonnay by producing a balanced, luscious wine with exotic tropical flavors and enhanced with the finest Oak.
Lush flavors of tropical fruit, kiwi, pineapple, honeysuckle, lemon cake, and meringue. Bright acidity, mineral, and light oak create balance.
I was quite frankly shocked by how good, and how sophisticated (and how much to my taste) this value-priced Chardonnay is. It can easily compete with Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnays twice or more its price.
The real thing, from a multi-generational collective of grower/winemakers.
