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Dear %%FIRSTNAME%%, We are very excited about the release of our 2011 Russian River Chardonnay – this vintage being one of our most limited productions and bearing unique notes from the special growing conditions of 2011. Our goal at Acacia is to interfere as little as possible in order to preserve maximum flavor with clarity and balance. We believe in the grapes and the land. We want them to have their full say in wines of purity and character. For this vintage, winemaker Matthew Glynn hand-selected 11 barrels for a most selective blend of flavor and aroma. We hope you find our 2011 Russian River Chardonnay as charming as we do! Enjoy 30% with shipping included on purchases of 6 or more bottles. 
About Matthew Glynn The creative process—in food, wine and the arts—has always appealed to Matthew. Preparing seasonal vegetables with freshly grown culinary herbs, and serving them with carefully made wines is a tradition he learned from his family, one that invigorates his life experience. Although he finds the artistic aspects of winemaking most appealing, Matthew spent years immersed in wine chemistry and studied extensively at the University of California, Davis. Over the last 20 years, Matthew has developed an intuitive approach to winemaking shaped by vintages in Burgundy, France; Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand; and several winegrowing regions in California. The delicate, expressive nature of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines lured him through the Grand Cru vineyards of Burgundy and eventually to Acacia Vineyard®, where he continues to seek new vineyard sites in order to create pure, stylish wines with unique character. As senior winemaker, Matthew cultivates and guides the enthusiasm of the Acacia team. “There is a strong collective desire here to create special wines,” he says. Matthew thrives in precisely this kind of environment, where everyone is ardently invested in the outcome. Matthew is methodical but also embraces risk—like harvesting grapes when sugar content is low—in order to elevate the finished wine. He continues to make more single-vineyard wines every year, as well as to explore new varietals and vinous styles for the Carneros wines that have been making lifelong fans of Acacia drinkers since 1979. 2011 Russian River Reserve Chardonnay This vintage is absolutely delicious. It is a very small blend – only 11 carefully selected barrels. Interestingly, many of the barrels of wine come from grapes that were grown in generally warmer part of the Russian River Valley appellation near Chalk Hill. The wines from that vineyard in 2011 showed character similar to the cooler parts of the appellation on a warmer year. All of the wine was fermented with native yeast either arriving from the vineyards on the grapes or pick-up in the winery. Lovely, fragrant wines that you will enjoy. Wines from the RRV area have such beautiful perfume and intensity along with their sense of place. When the grape growers tend to their vines as carefully as the growers do for our vineyards, these characters come through in the wine, as they do in these 2011s. Cheers, |
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“This is one of my favorites, and I have been appreciating that cooler vintages as we have seen in 2010 and 2011 allow the sense of place to show very well in the wines.” Past Vintage Reviews 2010 - 91 points Wine Spectator |
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*Offer ends 7.6.2013 and cannot be combined with any other offers. Please Enjoy Our Wines Responsibly |
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