2021 Cobb Vineyards Chardonnay Mes Filles Vineyard Sonoma Coast 750 ml

The 2021 Chardonnay Mes Filles Vineyard Sonoma Coast is a stunner that stands with the best of the Sonoma Coast. Sourced from a TINY 0.9-hectare parcel of Chardonnay planted just a few miles from the Pacific, it earned 95 points from Wine Advocate, a score that put it with the elite: Kistler, Aubert, Morlet, Littorai all dwell in that neighborhood.

Those wines can easily cost three digits. Cobb’s exquisite Chardonnay, of which just 260 cases were made, is a steal at far less than that. It’s our first-ever Chardonnay from Cobb, it’s a real keeper, and we know our savvy buyers will be all over it.

Ross is one of the greatest winemakers on the Sonoma Coast, and to get a sense of his status, just look at the wineries that have recruited him over the years: Burt Williams and Bob Cabral of Williams-Selyem nabbed him in 1998. Flowers hired him away in 2000, eventually making him head winemaker. Then David Hirsch called, asking to do the same, in 2009.

Mes Filles is a boutique vineyard located in the rugged Sonoma Coast AVA of California. It was planted to grapes in 1998, and it caught Ross Cobb’s eye during his tenure at Flowers. He kept a watch on the plot, and finally, over a conversation at the Occidental farmers’ market, he scored some grapes.

The site is one of the southwesternmost sites in the Sebastopol Hills sub-AVA of the Sonoma Coast. The vineyard is just nine acres, and the Chardonnay planting is a tiny fraction of that. The site’s extremely cool afternoon temperatures and challenging farming conditions make the Mes Filles Chardonnay lithe and mineral-driven. It’s a quintessential Cobb wine.