Ashanta Wines, ‘Calypso’ Chardonnay Sonoma Valley (2023)
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Sonoma County, California— 100% Chardonnay from organically-farmed 35-year-old vines on Sonoma Mountain, hand harvested and aged 10 months in neutral oak sur lie. Mineral, zesty, quartzine, quince, crisp— naturally textural, ripe and refreshing. A beautiful California Chardonnay without any additions to win over any skeptics! No S02.
West of the town of Sonoma, Grebnikoff Vineyard sits on the gentle undulating hillsides southeast of Sonoma Mountain. Interplanted with Merlot and Chardonnay, the Dowdell Creek runs down the base of Sonoma Mountain and parallel to the vineyard, eventually intersecting into the Sonoma Creek. The soils are full of gravelly alluvium that is high in quartz from the sedimentary rocks deposited through the Dowdell Creek.
The Ashanta wines is a new project from Chenoa Ashton-Lewis and Will Basanta. Chenoa’s family has been farming grapes in California for 3 generations. The couple started making wine after Chenoa’s family mentioned that a site of grapes were not sold and becoming bird food. They make wine in the same facility as Tony Cotturi, and through a few small world connections picked him up as a mentor. They employ various unique techniques, even forage some grapes, and have resurrected some sites after wildfires.