The Ojai Vineyard, Chardonnay Rancho Ontiveros Vineyard 2022

100% Chardonnay. Organic. In the fastest-warming county in the continental US, Adam Tolmach keeps pressing toward the Pacific seeking the clarity of cool-climate wine. The vineyard is on the southeastern end of the Santa Maria Valley on an east-west oriented bench; vines were planted in 1997. De-stemmed, pressed and fermented in newer, steam-treated neutral French oak barrels, stirring of the lees and allowing malolactic conversion to occur naturally. Aged 11 months in barrel with regular topping up until bottling in spring.