Brewer-Clifton Machado Chardonnay Sta. Rita Hills AVA

Santa Rita Hills AVA, USA

Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton's single-vineyard Machado Chardonnay from the diatomaceous earth soils of Sta. Rita Hills — California's most mineral, terroir-specific Chardonnay expression. Fermented with indigenous yeasts in Burgundy barrels, the wine shows extraordinary purity: lemon curd, white peach, crushed oyster shell, and the distinctive saline-iodine mineral note of fossilised seafloor soils. Taut, precise, and built for a decade of evolution.

Pairing intelligence

• main: California's great winter luxury crustacean with its most mineral Chardonnay — the wine's saline, oyster-shell mineral character mirrors the Dungeness's Pacific sweetness
• main: Sta. Rita Hills' most mineral Chardonnay and California's most prized shellfish — the wine's diatomaceous earth mineral depth echoes abalone's oceanic intensity