Wine Store

There’s lots of Chenin between here and Santa Barbara, but there is good reason to traverse all those miles. Of all the sites with which the winery works, Jurassic Park, planted on its own roots on quartz sand atop lime- stone in the late 1970s exhibits the most vintage variation, and small variations create very strong signals in the wine. Some years lean toward the lithe and appley; some towards the exotic; some toward the saline and chalky.

Ingredients: Chardonnay grapes, fresh ginger. No added sulphur.

Tasting Notes:  Nose:  Tropical with Banana, floral, lychee, red apple, soft and warm feeling.  Palate:  Orange and underripe pineapple, kiwi, bright but also was a fresh cream texture. Lactic and tangy.

The 2022 Lumen Santa Maria Valley Chardonnay offers aromas of bartlett pear, ripe peach, fresh red apple, succulent, spring rain and fennel. On the palate, the thin line between the old world and new world. Fresh as the morning dew yet everything that California promises in Chardonnay and rarely delivers…this one does.