The Same Block, the Opposite Year
A week earlier the 2018 had been on the table — a cool year picked in October. The 2017 is its mirror image: a Labor Day heat wave, a rushed pick, a crop down by a fifth.
Hudson Vineyards
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The Grower Who Kept Some Back
Hudson Ranch spent decades as the name on other people's labels. The estate bottling comes from the same Carneros blocks, in a year cool enough that the Chardonnay came in during October.