{"product_id":"emme-wines-made-for-each-other-chardonnay-2025","title":"Emme Wines \"Made For Each Other\" Chardonnay 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike many growers in California, Aki Nakai and his daughter Keiko of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNakai Vineyard\u003c\/span\u003e had difficulty selling their grapes in 2025. The winery that normally takes the Chardonnay (which amounts to 20-30 tons total off their vineyard) dropped their contract just before harvest, and the Nakais were unable to find another winery to pick up that contract. While Emme Wines is too small to take 30 tons of Chardonnay, they took a couple of tons from the vineyard to help them turn some of their fruit into wine. And winemaker Rosalind Reynolds loves their Muscat Vert and Merlot, so she knew their Chardonnay would make beautiful wine as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Chardonnay, she was aiming for about the same alcohol content as the Muscat, and a similarly lively acidity. But Chardonnay is a slower ripener than Muscat Vert, so this meant that they picked it about 10 days later than the Muscat. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chardonnay was pressed directly at the winery and left to settle in a tank overnight for racking off gross lees. For her other white wines, she prefers fermentation in stainless steel tank for a clean, tight texture. She wanted more warmth and weight on the Chardonnay, so she instead opted for fermentation in partially filled neutral oak barriques. Once primary fermentation was finished, the barriques were topped and  the wine was left to go through malolactic fermentation and age on its heavy lees for six months. Indigenous yeast fermentation. SO2: 20 ppm total. No other additions, unfined and unfiltered. 100 cases produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased in Sonoma, California, Rosalind Reynolds founded Emme Wines (named after her grandmother) in 2018 after years in the industry alongside the likes of Les Capriades, Martha Stoumen, and Pax (where she is also the assistant winemaker). Rosalind focuses on \"old school\" California varietals, like Carignan, Colombard, Merlot and Zinfandel, as well as uncommon grapes like Abouriou, Valdiguie and Muscat Vert, all farmed organically and sustainably, and she makes wine without additives and minimal intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emme Wines","offers":[{"title":"750 ml","offer_id":67711250825533,"sku":null,"price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/2931\/0781\/files\/Emme-Wines-Made-For-Each-Other-Chardonnay-2025.jpg?v=1792115828","url":"https:\/\/shopgeraldines.com\/products\/emme-wines-made-for-each-other-chardonnay-2025","provider":"Geraldine's Natural Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}