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 Kongsgaard
Fifth-generation Napa natives John and Maggy Kongsgaard produce The Judge, Chardonnay, Roussanne/Viognier, and Syrah. Shy-bearing vineyards and traditional low-intervention winemaking techniques produce powerful, graceful wines -- high intensity expressions of vineyard and variety. The core of their endeavor is the ten-acre vineyard they planted in the late 1970s on a rocky hilltop in southern Napa Valley which has belonged to the Kongsgaard family since the 1920s. In addition to these family acres, they direct the farming under long-term contract on another seven acres in the Napa Carneros and three acres near St. Helena. The winery, on the eastern rim of Napa Valley, is a cave drilled into the volcanic rock. Production is limited to what they can make with their own hands.
 Winemaking
and new Vinery at Kongsgaard
This year Kongsgaard have some very exciting news: The 2006 vintage will inaugurate
their new winery -- this has been their dream for 30 years. In September of 2004,
Kongsgaard found some beautiful land on the rim of Napa Valley east of Oakville and, for the past year,
they have been busy blasting their way into the mountain. The winery is completely underground, dug and dynamited into the incredibly hard volcanic rock 2,300 feet above the valley floor.
CHARDONNAY NAPA VALLEY
Good clear, full yellow. Superripe aromas of peach, apricot, honey and lees. Lush, thick and full, but kept firm by an edge of acidity. Wonderfully sweet pit fruit flavors complicated by smoky and gamey nuances. Wild but not out of control.
Chardonnay is grown primarily on the shy-bearing Kongsgaard family vineyard described above. This vineyard gives the wine its dense, minerally core and extravagant honeyed aroma. Small amounts of wine made from two distinguished Carneros vineyards, Hudson and Hyde, are included in the blend, bringing stone fruit and citrus high-notes to the wine. Like The Judge, the Napa Valley Chardonnay is allowed to ferment in new French barrels without any human intervention other than the weekly stirring by hand – no yeast, no bacteria, no fining, no filtration.
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