2023 Dream Field

At the Peake Ranch, this Chardonnay grows on an interesting, atypical, northeast facing hillside. The soil is dark and has a revered "Botella Clay Loam" look to it. The vineyard can be seen from Santa Rosa Road especially when traveling west toward Lompoc. It is the kind of stunning slightly edgy hillside that makes winemakers melt. When I first saw this vineyard, I thought, "Is that even real?!". When I learned that Peake would make some of its fruit available to me, I knew I had to name it Dream Field.