Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Sparkling Chardonnay Trout Gulch Vyd 2024 070726OFFER Aged in mostly older French

Aged in mostly older French oak (10–15% new)

where gravelly

From the producer:  Sourced from a single vineyard in Lodi

This is the bottle to buy by the case

Jean-Paul Jamet has been at it since 1976 - he was sixteen - and while Gentaz retired and Guigal went its own way

Alfaro Family Santa Cruz Mtns Sparkling Chardonnay Trout Gulch Vyd 2024 070726OFFER Aged in mostly older FrenchA sparkling Chardonnay from Trout Gulch, the old vineyard near Aptos that Richard Alfaro has farmed for over fifteen years and that supplies some of the Santa Cruz Mountains' most distinctive Chardonnay. Picked early to preserve acidity, the wine has the cool climate cut and green apple snap you want from a sparkler but with a real sense of place. It's a useful house bubbly: dry, salty, and food friendly without the price tag of Champagne.