2019 Vintage

Classic Avenius Vineyard terroir notes: Calcareous and stony. While texturally dense, boney, and linear, the warm 2019 vintage toned down the typical nervousness and bracing acidity common in Avenius Chardonnay bottlings.

This vintage expresses an unusual confluence of a hot growing season with the normally cool Avenius vineyard site. This wine is full bodied, dense, focused and concentrated. Aromas have a floral, tropical pungency. A rich mid palate weight is atypical of Avenius Sauvignon Blanc, but there is enough acidity to freshen up the finish.

Round and plump with a sweet entry and lingering, briny finish. Very quaffable.

The warm 2019 produced a classically varietal Viognier. The grape’s exuberance was respected resulting inane unabashedly blows Viognier. Aromas of peach, papaya, mango and honeysuckle. This is a rich, viscous, mouth coating and warming wine.

2019 gives us a very different Hardscrabble Chardonnay. The warm vintage produced a round, mouth-filling texture. Ripe fruit notes, caramelized apple, vanilla, and butterscotch are apparent in the wine’s youth.

2019 is the inaugural vintage of Hardscrabble Sauvignon Blanc. The Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon vines were planted in 2012. The first vintages from these young vines made good wine, but not to the level of a Linden single vineyard designation. The stars aligned in 2019.

Demi sec translates as half dry which means that there is just a touch of sweetness in the wine. This is to balance out the natural piercing acidity that the grape variety Petit Manseng is known for. The 2019 is classically generous and aromatically expressive. This wine will benefit from aging.

This is a restrained, mineral style Riesling. It is medium/light bodied, with just a faint touch of sweetness. It finishes with ample acidity and some phenolics (tannins) that give it length.

The ripe, hedonistic 2019 Village Chardonnay is reflective of the warm, dry harvest. Golden Delicious apple, fresh cut straw and dried apricots define the nose. The palate is upfront and forward with an unctuous entry. Mouth filling sweet fruit is framed by moderate acidity, but finishes long with phenolic length.

Wabi Sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that reveres the “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. This reflects our philosophy behind the wine.