Nickel & Nickel Chardonnay `truchard Vineyard` (Napa) 22

Nickel & Nickel is located in Oakville, Napa Valley, along Highway 29, on forty two acres that were originally settled as a farmstead in the 1880s. Housed within the farmstead structures is an ultra-modern winery uniquely suited to producing single-vineyard wines. The estate is solar powered and are net-zero users of electricity , annually producing more energy than we consume. Their Napa Valley vineyards are farmed organically . Used water is recycled for vineyard irrigation and frost control sprays. Like a trip to the old world, their thirty thousand square-foot subterranean barrel cellar appears as a beautifully dramatic and unexpected room. Located beneath the fermentation barns, wine is moved gently from tank to barrel through the cellars custom-formed hollow columns. The Truchard Vineyard in Napa Valleys Carneros region benefits from beautiful sun exposure and cool morning and evening fog. This Chardonnays tropical fruit profile is balanced with mineral and wet stone notes. Its perfect with a silky potato and leek soup, crab cakes, creamy pasta sauces, or soft cheeses like Brie . .