Philippe Melka NAILED this inaugural vintage

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2021 OVIS Chardonnay Harold & Grace Vineyard High Valley Lake County 750 ml

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An Inaugural Chardonnay Worth Waiting For

Philippe Melka took one look and knew he struck gold. When the 100-point Napa winemaking legend saw Clay Shannon’s expertly-manicured hilltop terroir in Lake County, he knew he had to work with it. 

The 2021 Harold & Grace Vineyard Chardonnay is legendary winemaker Philippe Melka’s inaugural OVIS wine. It’s exceptional—an opulent 100% estate-grown, certified-organic Chardonnay that Wine Enthusiast crowned with 94 points—and it shows exactly why Napa Valley icons like grower Andy Beckstoffer are flocking to Lake County.

Lake County, directly above Napa, is a hotbed for some of the most outrageously delicious and affordable wines in California—and Clay Shannon is one of its most important players. He realized the potential for Lake County early on: In 1996, he bought over 2,000 acres on a series of rocky slopes at an extreme 2,500 feet of elevation in the Mayacamas Range, overlooking California’s largest natural lake. 

Shannon purchased the property from Harold and Grace Ogulin, whose ancestors were early homesteaders, pioneering winegrowers in Lake County who planted a 150-year old mother vine of Cinsault near their house. The Ogulins lived out their lives at this house in an agreement with Shannon, to whom they entrusted their historic piece of property. 

This Chardonnay vineyard, now over a decade old, surrounds the house. “I’ve been to this property four times,” Sur told us. “It has spectacular north and north east facing views, on a windy hill facing away from the direct sunlight,” he continued. “That’s why the wine has such a round, creamy mouthfeel but still shows poise and grace.”