This is the vineyard that put Santa Lucia Highlands on the viticultural map with their great Burgundian inspired wines.
The Sleepy Hollow is a giant vineyard that the Talbott family farms, they sell grapes to some of the top producers of both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in California, but naturally they keep the best lots for their own label.
This is a rich and complex Chardonnay with fine minerality and excellent elegance and finesse, the wine is barrel fermented then aged 12 months in French oak, plus another year in bottle prior to release. Complex and long, the wine was rated very highly by The Wine Spectator for the previous release, 2004. The 2005 will be more restrained and less tropical than the very ripe 2004.
- Christopher Miller, Advanced Sommelier
