William Hill North Coast Chardonnay 750ml
Wine Specs
Varietal
Chardonnay
Appellation
California
Wine Enthusiast
89
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Bright and expressive, our William Hill Estate Napa Valley Chardonnay offers a
taste of luxury with its rich palate and silky mouthfeel that culminate in a long,
lingering finish. Flavours of ripe tropical and stone fruit are complemented by
notes of caramel, brown spice and toasted oak for a truly memorable wine.
Vineyard Notes
With roots deeply anchored in the Napa Valley, William Hill Estate crafts luxury
Chardonnay and Bordeaux varietal wines from the undiscovered vineyards of
California’s most celebrated regions. Beginning with William Hill Estate’s 140-acre
benchland vineyard near the Silverado Trail, Winemaker Mark Williams turns to
the hidden corners of southern Napa, the North Coast and the Central Coast to
create a unique collection of rich, expressive wines.
Winemaker Notes
The grapes for our William Hill Estate Napa Valley Chardonnay were harvested
by hand and gently pressed as whole clusters. The majority of this wine was
fermented at an ambient cellar temperature of 65˚F, with selected juice lots racked
off gross lees to retain the fine lees for fermentation. Following primary
fermentation, the majority of this wine underwent malolactic fermentation and sur
lie aging in a combination of new and used American oak barrels. The lees were
stirred by hand weekly through the winter and early spring to enhance the creamy
mouthfeel of this Chardonnay. Only the best, most expressive lots made it into
the final blend.