Carol Shelton Wild Thing Chardonnay 2024

Tropical fruits like pineapple and a bit of guava, green apple, oak spice. Soft creamy mouthfeel, punctuated by bright acidity and a crisp finish. Walks the line between pure stainless steel fermented, leaner Chardonnay and the fat, buttery barrel-fermented style.

78% Chardonnay, 11% Viognier, 5% Malvasia & 3% each Marsanne/Roussanne

Whole Cluster pressed, settled and racked to barrels. All Barrel-fermented, hand inoculated barrel by barrel with 6 yeast strains plus 20% wild yeast (uninoculated). Stirred weekly sur lie for six months (till early March). About 20% went thru malo-lactic fermentation.