Scar of the Sea - 'Bassi Vineyard' - Chardonnay - San Luis Obispo County, CA - 2022

This wine is made from 22 year old vines at the Bassi Vineyard, located on the coastal hillsides of Avila Valley. This bottling is a unique snapshot of a true coastal vineyard in California, located 1.2 miles from the Pacific Ocean. This wine is full of energy and precision. The juice is fermented with native yeast and bacteria in 228 L & 500 L barrels, then aged on lees for 17 months, and racking to bottle, without fining or filtration, with minimal sulfur used. Think lemon cake, caramel apple with chalky minerality 12.5% alcohol, 191 cases made

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Scar of the Sea was established in 2012 and is owned & operated by Mikey & Gina Giugni in San Luis Obispo, California.

The Central Coast offers us the opportunity to live, work, and play by the sea, who is influential to the vineyards we work with and how we spend our time. The ocean’s presence has shaped our way of life along with the climate, soils, and geology of the coastal vineyards we work with that fall under the spell of her fog each day.

Scar of the Sea focuses on working with farmers who are instrumental in farming for the future and making wines with as little intervention as possible. Our wines are made with the intention to tell a story of where they come from, the people who farm them, and reflect each vintage under the California sun.