Alcohol: 13%
Grape(s): 100% Chardonnay
Location: Central Coast, California, USA
Tasting Notes: Pretty aromas of citrus flowers and fruit. Notes of limes, lemons and toasty notes from oak. On the palate, it will have good structure and plenty of restraint and balance, making it a very food-friendly and approachable wine.
Notes: Sourced from Spanish Springs and Norgrove Gardens vineyards. Fermented in stainless steel
100% malolactic fermentation. Aged 9 months in neutral 500L barrels (34%), neutral228L barrels (49%) and stainless steel tank (17%)
Food pairing: Pairs well with creamy dishes, seafood, and poultry. Consider creamy pasta with a cheese or buttery sauce, seared or grilled white fish, shrimp scampi, or roasted chicken or pork. It also complements mild, creamy cheeses like Brie and a light chicken burger.
Winery Story: Sandhi represents a union essential to the production of wine: the collaboration between man, earth, and vine.
Sandhi is a small production California winery focusing on select vineyards from the Sta. Rita Hills in
Santa Barbara County. Sandhi was founded in 2010 by Rajat Parr, the wine director for Michael Mina
Restaurants, and winemaker, Sashi Moorman.
Sandhi represents a union essential to the production of wine: the collaboration between man, earth,
and vine. The willing participation of all three elements is necessary to make great wine, and the
winegrower must make this collaboration rich and nourishing for all involved. An understanding of these
joint efforts informs Sandhi’s exploration of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines throughout the Santa
Barbara County terroir.
The individual vineyards from which these grapes originate–some legendary, some new–have been
exhaustively vetted for character, personality, and balance. Employing the wisdom and talents of people
who know the vineyards, Sandhi is dedicated to making wines of finesse, minerality, acidity, structure
and balance. Wine achieves power and beauty through the seamless integration of these qualities, and
this is the inspiration for Sandhi. Wines exhibiting extreme ripeness, alcohol, oak, and other discordant
exaggerations cannot truly express a specific vineyards terroir.
Sandhi is dedicated to making wines of finesse, minerality, acidity, structure and balance. Wine achieves
power and beauty through the seamless integration of these qualities, and this is the inspiration for us.
We feel wines exhibiting extreme ripeness, alcohol, oak and other discordant exaggerations cannot truly
express a specific vineyards’ terroir.
It is because of this focus for balance for why we are so determined to find vineyard sites from the Sta.
Rita Hills that are old-vine, have cold temperatures, windy exposures, north-facing expositions and clay
and diatomaceous soils.
