Rivers-Marie Joy Road Vineyard Sonoma Coast Chardonnay - 2020 (750ml) Piedmont The finish is long with

The finish is long with orange and a touch of iron oxide

The result is a super textural

The Gessler family settled here

old-school Pauillac that is just beginning to show a little dryness toward the tobacco-dominated finish

Tasting note

Rivers-Marie Joy Road Vineyard Sonoma Coast Chardonnay - 2020 (750ml) Piedmont The finish is long withJoy Road feels like it is becoming more and more consistent every year. Its been hard to pin down the vineyard signature over the 7 or so years we have sourced fruit from this tiny parcel west of Occidental. In 2020, it is pretty exuberant reflecting the overarching vintage characteristic. All the fruit notes here lean to tropical but with bracing acidity to give the wine balance and present the wine more as exotic than overblown. This, like the