Some 15,000 bottles of the nouveau will be available through finer restaurants, specialty wine stores, upscale supermarkets, and online at jlwoodwine.com.
The grapes come from a JL Wood owned vineyard in the “cone” of the Arroyo Seco AVA (Monterey County). The district is known for slow-maturing Chardonnay grapes with intense tropical fruit esters and lively acid resulting from warm summer days and ocean breeze-cooled nights.
“Our mission is to bring new and luxurious experiences to the millennial wine drinker. Our winemaker, Edward Filice, suggested we try to elevate Chardonnay into something with a far greater wow factor. We thought it would be ago od fit for the younger wine lovers we want to reach,” Paul Morrison, JL Wood Managing Director, said.