Crowley Four Winds Vineyard Chardonnay Helen 2024 Vintage:2024 The palate is of citrus

The palate is of citrus

Serviceable but unremarkable

leg of lamb on the grill and pork sausages with peppers immediately come to mind

but none of the heft the grape is generally known for

leather and restrained cassis

Crowley Four Winds Vineyard Chardonnay Helen 2024 Vintage:2024 The palate is of citrusTyson Crowley makes this one with the Four Winds Draper Clone Chardonnay, same as Eyrie's early Chardonnay, a higher acid sort and low yielding. He makes the wine in a reductive style, leaving it more or less alone during fermentation. It's the linear, mineral cut, acid forward of the two. Flinty reduction, salt, green apple, pear blossoms, hints of strawberry and lime, tension filled nose. The palate is pure tension and intensity key limes, orange,