Ici/La-Bas has been sourcing fruit from Tom and Mary Elke's vineyard near Boonville since 1997. The Victoria Chardonnay is a full bodied white that combines ripe fruit, exotic mineral complexity, lush texture, and great acidity. This wine come from a mature vineyard (29 years old) with very small yields (around 1/2 ton per acre) of gloriously ripe, golden berries. This is Burgundian in style with peach, slate, golden delicious apple, earth, toasted grain, and hazelnut notes stemming from its integrated Francois Freres new barrel component. |