Alfaro Family Vineyards & Winery
2025 Alfaro Family 'A' Estate Chardonnay 750ml
Beautifully composed Chardonnay with white peach, lemon curd, and just enough richness.
- Producer
- Alfaro Family Vineyards & Winery
- Style
- White
- Type
- Still
- Grape
- Origin
- Santa Cruz Mountains, California, USA
- Country
- USA
- Region
- California
- Sub-region
- Santa Cruz Mountains
- Appellation
- Santa Cruz Mountains
- Classification
- AVA
- Grown in
- Corralitos, California, United States
- Farming
- Sustainable
- Certifications
- Certified Organic
- Winemaking
- Pressed as whole clusters, then fermented in French oak barrels and in stainless steel tanks with a mix of cultured and indigenous yeasts. After fermentation, tank lots were put into barrels. Aged 10 months in French oak, 20% new, on the lees with occasional stirring. Underwent complete malolactic fermentation. Bottled by gravity without fining, and the label states unfiltered. About 2,025 cases annually.
- Methods
- Native Yeast, Unfined, Unfiltered, Lees Stirring
- Tech sheet
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Santa Cruz County, California, United States
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Alfaro Family Vineyards & Winery
In 1997, Richard Alfaro and his wife Mary Kay bought a 75 acre apple farm in Corralitos, south of Santa Cruz, after years running a restaurant and their wholesale baking company, Alfaro’s Micro Bakery. They set about converting the property to winegrowing, planting vines and building a small winery on site.
Over the years they established multiple estate parcels for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and began farming the nearby Trout Gulch site as well. Today they farm and bottle under Alfaro Family Vineyards & Winery, with about 60 acres under vine in the Santa Cruz Mountains, working with coastal sites just a few miles from Monterey Bay that bring cool breezes and a long season.
Over the years they established multiple estate parcels for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and began farming the nearby Trout Gulch site as well. Today they farm and bottle under Alfaro Family Vineyards & Winery, with about 60 acres under vine in the Santa Cruz Mountains, working with coastal sites just a few miles from Monterey Bay that bring cool breezes and a long season.
| Nose | White peach, lemon curd, lemon peel, flinty, wet stone |
|---|---|
| Palate | White peach and lemon curd, bright and pithy, stony, just enough richness |
| Finish | Medium length, citrus pith and stony |
| Texture | Bright and pithy, with a gentle creaminess |
| Body | Medium |
| Serving | Serve at 50°F. No decanting. |
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Alcohol
- Moderate
- Vintage
- 2025
- Pairs with
- Dungeness crab with drawn butter; Roast chicken with lemon and thyme; Seared scallops with corn and basil; Pasta with spring peas, mint, and Pecorino
- Blend
- Chardonnay
- Terroir
- 500 to 850 feet, vines planted 1980 to 2008, less than 4 miles from Monterey Bay.
white grape · major international
Chardonnay
shar·doh·nay
Waxy palate weight and bright acidity that scale seamlessly from steely mineral to rich butter.
2025 Alfaro Family 'A' Estate Chardonnay 750ml
Sale price$25.00
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2025 Alfaro Family 'A' Estate Chardonnay 750ml
Sale price$25.00
Beautifully composed Chardonnay with white peach, lemon curd, and just enough richness.
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