Hanzell Sonoma Valley Chardonnay Estate 2021 Old Rioja Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc

Tegan Passalacqua celebrates Lodi's forgotten heritage with this striking blend of own-rooted vines from 1886-1915

Drink it for the discovery

and patience

Hanzell Sonoma Valley Chardonnay Estate 2021 Old Rioja Cabernet FrancBefore the Judgment of Paris, before Napa's cult Cabernets, there was Hanzell. Ambassador James Zellerbach founded it in 1953 with a genuinely audacious goal: to make Burgundian wine on the slopes of Sonoma that could stand next to the great whites of the Cote d'Or. Walk the vineyard today and you are walking past the oldest continuously producing Chardonnay vines in the Western Hemisphere. The Estate bottling comes from high elevation volcanic soils