When Washington Irving wrote his short story, The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1820, he couldn’t have known there would be a
Sleepy Hollow vineyard all the way across the country in California, which
didn’t even exist as a state. And the two Sleepy Hollows could not be more
different. California’s Sleepy Hollow in Monterey County is a lush beautiful land
populated with grapes at the foot of the Santa Lucia Mountains overlooking
the fertile Salinas Valley. Cranes’ Sleepy Hollow is dark, dank, moody and
people fear for their safety. Fortunately there’s no fear in the Talbott
Vineyards 2013 Sleepy Hollow Chardonnay. This wine is full of apple,
apricot, sweet resin, quince, cedar and vanilla. It’s been fermented in the
barrel but is not some oaky/buttery bomb that has lost its head. And it
straddles that line between mature fruit and caramelized flavors, and yes, it’s
under screw cap – and regardless of what you want to think or believe, screw
caps protect you, the consumer. This is what Talbott does best, take a scary
idea like barrel fermented chardonnay and turn it into a great little story. TALBOTT
ORIGIN: Monterey, Santa Lucia
Highlands, California
PRICE: $42 - 750/ml
ALCOHOL: 14.7%
BOOZEHOUNDZ SCORE: 91
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