2020 | Aubert | Sugar Shack Napa Valley Chardonnay

The 2020 Sugar Shack is a seductive wine of incredible scale and energy. The nose is draped with intoxicating aromas of apricot oil, yellow peach, almond croissant, and cardamon spice with a hint of sun-dried hay. The palate is a satiny elixir of lemon confit and apple pie spice layered over a succulent core of white peach preserves. A touch of talc comes through to give the wine an attractive texture on the finish. This wine has more to reveal and will age gracefully for over a decade. The wine is slightly hazy showing our commitment to minimal intervention winemaking.

Reviews:

• James Suckling: A solid and full-bodied wine with dried apple, pineapple, lemon rind, Full-bodied, layered and beautiful. Delicious finish. Drink now.

• Vinous: The 2020 Chardonnay Sugar Shack is creamy and expressive, with gorgeous depth and planty of the richness readers expect in Aubert Chardonnays, although naturally in the smaller-scaled style of the year. Lemon confit, white flowers, mint and ochard fruit build nicely in the glass. The 2020 is beautifully done and quite expressive today.

Producer Information

Aubert is a small Chardonnay and Pinot Noir estate that makes wine from single-vineyard sites in Napa Valley and Sonoma. It was founded by Mark and Teresa Aubert in 1999, and today, is considered to be one of California's cult producers.
The first vintage of Aubert was in 2000 – a Chardonnay sourced from the Ritchie Vineyard in Russian River Valley. It quickly received acclaim for its full-blown, hedonistic style and was pivotal for company's success. Although the vineyard is no longer within the company's holdings, the Burgundian syle in which the Ritchie Vineyard Chardonnay was produced, remains as the production style throughout the wine portfolio. The chardonnay wines are barrel-fermented and aged in French oak, a majority of which is new.
Aubert's portfolio has since expanded to an array of single-vineyard Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines, sourced from multiple vineyard sites in Russian River and Rutherford as well as Napa and Sonoma. Each wine in Aubert's portfolio is named after the parcel of vineyard from which it is sourced and production is extremely limited. The Lauren vineyard is eight acres (3.2 hectares) of Chardonnnay, named after the founder's daughter and was the first estate vineyard of Aubert. Today, the compnay counts over ten different vineyards within its holdings.

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