Chardonnay favors cooler climates and for California that means the coastal ranges and inlet bay regions, with their misty mornings and foggy afternoons, compressing the growing day.  Few regions express this "bi-polar" day better than the Carneros region in south Napa Valley. The vineyard is planted to Dijon clone 96 of chardonnay, in one contiguous block. The fruit was picked and pressed the same day.