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Mountain-grown Chardonnay with lifted aromas of white peach, pear, chamomile and lemon verbena over flint and crushed stone. Layered apple and Meyer lemon, a fine creamy texture, honeycomb and a salty, mineral lift carry a long, energetic finish.
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Food pairings: Roast chicken, halibut and other richer white fish, mushroom risotto and pasta with a simple butter sauce.
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Winemaking: The grapes are whole-cluster pressed at fractional pressures, each pressing collected separately, and the juice settles for 24 to 36 hours, open to oxygen so that the elements prone to oxidation drop out. It then goes straight to barrel, 18% of them new and the rest one to four years old. The wine stays on its lees throughout, with stirring more often early on and down to once a month near the end; the lees and the thick skins of the old Wente clone give its sappy yet soft texture. Only 30% goes through malolactic fermentation, and the wine ages for 11 months, a deliberately light touch so that nothing masks the site.
Vineyards and terroir: The heart of Myrna is Bald Mountain, a remote, dry-farmed vineyard tucked into the west side of the second-highest peak of the Mayacamas range, just off the steep road between Napa and Sonoma. Vines were first planted there early in the 20th century, and the site is said to have been a hideout during Prohibition. Its old vines of heritage California clones grow on poor, fractured rock in a cool bowl at the bottom of the site, which shows in the chalky, saline, mineral finish. Thornton Vineyard, at the southern base of Sonoma Mountain just west of the town of Sonoma, adds brightness and citrus from Pacific influence and altitude. 2021 had little winter rain and ripened early, with low yields and exceptional concentration. The name Myrna means "beloved".
Family and history: Far Mountain is the project of Mai Errazuriz and her husband Rodrigo Soto, who spent three decades working for leading wineries in North and South America before setting out to make wines from remote mountain vineyards in the Sonoma Valley. They had driven within three miles of Bald Mountain for years without knowing it existed; finding it sealed their vision of wines "chiseled by the landscape".
In the pictures: A mountain vineyard among the oak- and chaparral-covered peaks of the Mayacamas, and young Chardonnay clusters on a block marker in one of Far Mountain's vineyards (photos: Far Mountain, via its importer Vintus).
