2024 Thomas Fogarty Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay

A wine that completely overdelivers, the 2024 Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains is brilliantly scintillating. The combination of slightly less time in wood than has been the norm here, and a blend of many sites across the portfolio, yields a wine that dances across the palate but delivers serious flavor complexity, purity and deep minerality. Generous aromas and flavors of golden mango, exotic spices and crushed oyster shell run through from the first sip to the long, saline finish. There’s a real sense of weightlessness and superb balance here. What a beauty.