Above 8 bottles per lot
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KISTLER
Founded in 1978 by Steve Kistler, the winery genuinely came into its own in the late 1980s when it began to focus on chardonnay. By finding the best vineyards and applying Burgundian techniques, Kistler has taken California chardonnay to a new level. Grapes garnered from low yields are exposed to cultured and indigenous yeasts, stirred extensively on their lees, treated with varying degrees of new oak according to vineyard and bottled unfiltered. The range of chardonnay is staggering: elegant and pure-McCrea, vervy, stony-Vine Hill, white corn and acidic-Camp Meeting Ridge, concentrated yet peachy-Durell, smoky, nutty-Dutton, tropical-Hudson, buttery and unctuous-Kistler and the superbly rich, butter-Cuvée Cathleen. Meanwhile the pinots are much harder to come by and all aged 100 new oak. Similarly, Burgundian techniques are followed but extraction is taken to a new level. They range from the edgy Hirsch Vineyard to the warm and embracing Camp Meeting Ridge to the jammy eponymous vineyard, headlined by the blackberry and barnyard of the Cuvée Catherine and the intense minerality of the Cuvée Elizabeth.
JC
Kistler, Cuvée Cathleen, Chardonnay
Sonoma County
--Vintage 1998(3)
--Vintage 1999(1)
--Vintage 2000(2)
--Vintage 2001(2)
Above 8 bottles per lot
Founded in 1978 by Steve Kistler, the winery genuinely came into its own in the late 1980s when it began to focus on chardonnay. By finding the best vineyards and applying Burgundian techniques, Kistler has taken California chardonnay to a new level. Grapes garnered from low yields are exposed to cultured and indigenous yeasts, stirred extensively on their lees, treated with varying degrees of new oak according to vineyard and bottled unfiltered. The range of chardonnay is staggering: elegant and pure-McCrea, vervy, stony-Vine Hill, white corn and acidic-Camp Meeting Ridge, concentrated yet peachy-Durell, smoky, nutty-Dutton, tropical-Hudson, buttery and unctuous-Kistler and the superbly rich, butter-Cuvée Cathleen. Meanwhile the pinots are much harder to come by and all aged 100 new oak. Similarly, Burgundian techniques are followed but extraction is taken to a new level. They range from the edgy Hirsch Vineyard to the warm and embracing Camp Meeting Ridge to the jammy eponymous vineyard, headlined by the blackberry and barnyard of the Cuvée Catherine and the intense minerality of the Cuvée Elizabeth.
JC
Kistler, Cuvée Cathleen, Chardonnay
Sonoma County
--Vintage 1998(3)
--Vintage 1999(1)
--Vintage 2000(2)
--Vintage 2001(2)
Above 8 bottles per lot