Mer Soleil 2017 Chardonnay, Silver, Unoaked, Monterey

Mer Soleil is now led by Chuck’s son, winemaker Charlie Wagner. Inheriting his family’s love of farming and adventurous spirit, he first spent time at the Mer Soleil vineyard in middle school as “punishment” when he got in trouble for bringing firecrackers to school. Like other members of his family, Charlie feels most at home in the vineyard. Charlie is always eager to escort people in his truck down the area’s rustic roads, so that they too can experience a place unlike any other.

The grapes that produce this wine are grown in the county of Monterey, California, a coastal setting where sunny skies mix with predictable, cooling maritime winds. This very cool grape growing region is chosen to produce a pure wine with all the vitality and mineral character of the earth in which it was grown. Silver is the purest “unoaked” expression of our best Chardonnay grapes, and can be enjoyed chilled with a wide array of foods. The grapes are fermented in cement tanks and the wine has no oak contact.