WINE: Time Place Wine Co Chardonnay
VARIETALS: Chardonnay
VITICULTURE AREA: Monterey County, CA

Tasting Notes:
20% new French oak aging. Golden straw in color. Fresh, dense nose of lime peel, ripe Meyer lemon and yellow apple, with hints of hazelnut in the background. Delicious, linear flavors of green apple, pear and citrus.

Food Suggestions:
Pasta with cream, butter or cheese based sauces. Salads with citrus components, white fish, and shellfish.

Our inspiration is the truth that wine is a perfect reflection of time and place, the culmination of climate and season, site and study, and that moment you share a bottle with friends and family.

Through our Vigneron’s extensive understanding of California’s best wine growing regions, and the connections he’s made in his 26 years in the fields, we offer a collection of wines that best represent each AVA. We are honored to represent Napa, Sonoma County, Monterey, Santa Barbara and Lodi, and aim to bring the beauty and complexity of each individual growing region to the bottle and to your table. You should expect consistency and quality from our wines. We hope they bring you meaningful, shared time & place moments.

For fans of La Crema, give this much smaller production wine a try. Crafted by Jamey Whetstone, who trained under Ehren Jordan at Turley for several years, it is composed of grapes from cooler climate, coastal-influenced sites in Monterey County.

Aged in French oak (20% new), it offers up gorgeous aromas of Meyer lemon, buttered citrus, and golden apple on the nose. The palate is simultaneously fresh and ripe, with a long and clean finish. Mild oak spice lingers....

PLACE | Kiahwah River - Johns Island - South Carolina
32.628061° N , -80.103329° W

VINEYARD NOTES | A couple select sites throughout Monterey County. 2021 was a pretty normal year down there. Regardless of where you are the wind and mild, steady coastal temps make for wonderfully balanced Chardonnay.

Harvest September 4th-17th.

WINEMAKER'S TASTING NOTES | 20% new French oak aging. Golden straw in color. Fresh, dense nose of lime peel, ripe Meyer lemon and yellow apple, with hints of hazelnut in the background. Delicious, linear flavors of green apple, pear and citrus. Pretty long, clean finish with a touch of ripe quince and acidity.

Jamey Whetstone moved out to Napa Valley from his home in South Carolina to manage Mustards Grill in 1996. Simply captivated by the community, lifestyle and culture of wine country, he found himself quickly growing roots. By 1998, he had begun his winemaking education at Turley Wine Cellars where he would remain in his apprenticeship until 2005. During that time, he spent a summer sabbatical working for the Seysses Family at Domaine Dujac in Morey-Saint-Denis and laid the groundwork for Whetstone Wine Cellars in 2002.

John Duckworth’s works transcend the line between realism and abstraction. His photographs are infused with an intimate knowledge of nature, a passion for pure color, and a rhythm drawn from life itself. His trademark style involves abstracting the photographic image to lend the work a much lauded painterly appearance. By providing the viewer a sense of place, yet obscuring the details, he allows each individual to step into the image and bring forth their own visual history. The ensuing narrative is enriched through the power of memory, infusing a personal creative process with universal appeal. John Duckworth lives and works in Johns Island, South Carolina.

Monterey County wine is a appellation that designates wine made from grapes grown in Monterey County, California which lies entirely within the expansive multi-county Central Coast viticultural area. County names in the United States automatically qualify as legal appellations of origin for wine produced from grapes grown in that county and do not require registration with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). TTB was created in January 2003, when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, or ATF, was extensively reorganized under the provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

Monterey County is known internationally for its scenic splendor with the California Coast Ranges forming the mountainous shoreline and wind-swept evergreens on coastal cliffs outlined by the cinematic Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) along Big Sur, the white-sanded beaches in Carmel, the quiet tide pools at Pebble Beach and fertile soils of the Salinas Valley caressed by the maritime California weather. These elements provide ideal terrain, climate, and soil creating unique microclimates throughout the county for a vibrant viticulture economy. This historic region is one of the popular bastions of cool-climate viticulture because of its proximity to the Pacific coast.