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2024 SPHAERICS OVERLINE CARNEROS CHARDONNAY

Name: 2024 SPHAERICS OVERLINE CARNEROS CHARDONNAY
Brand: Sphaerics
SKU: custom-1783093000983
Price: 79.99 USD
Availability: InStock

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Product Details

VarietalChardonnay

RegionCarneros

ProducerSphaerics

Vintage2024

Size750ML

ABV14.2%

WinemakerLaura Jones

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Professional Ratings

97

Vinous

“The 2024 Chardonnay Overline, tasted from tank just prior to bottling, shares remarkable similarities with the 2023, but with everything dialed up. It's another wine that balances inner tension with plush, unctuous textures and unreal density. The depth of the minerality and tactile zip of the acids here join together in effortless harmony. I can't wait to taste this from bottle. 95-97 Points”

96

James Suckling

“Seductive aromas of sliced lemons, chalk, wet stones, pastry, citrus blossom and beeswax. The palate is taut and precise with a long line of acidity, generous texture and a classical yet refreshing mineral-edged finish with a real old world feel. This is an excellent chardonnay and overdelivers..., made in a true Burgundy style with precision and focus. Drink or hold.”

96

Decanter

“Using fruit from a vineyard in Carneros owned by the Lede family, this Chardonnay brings together three clones from three distinct blocks: Old Wente, Hyde, and Mount Eden. The site represents a new development for the Lede family, with former Cliff Lede winemaker Laura playing a key role in re-establishing the collaboration. The wine was aged for 11 months in 50% new French oak, followed by 5 months in stainless steel before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. The 2024 vintage is incredibly pure, bright, and lifted, showing expressive notes of citrus, tropical fruit, and white peach. Layers of saline and wet-stone minerality add depth and vibrancy, while the long finish is full-flavoured, finely mineral, and driven by captivating energy and tension. Sphaerics was founded in 2022 by Brian Ball and Laura Jones, a husband-and-wife team of wine industry veterans. The wines are made by Laura, who fine-tuned her Chardonnay and Pinot Noir winemaking skills during a 5-year tenure at Aubert and a stint at Domaine Armand Rousseau.”

About This Wine

The 2024 Sphaerics Overline Chardonnay reflects why Laura Jones has become one of California’s most respected winemakers. After years as winemaker at Aubert, a harvest at Domaine Armand Rousseau in Burgundy, and time as winemaker at Cliff Lede, she and her husband, Brian Ball, founded Sphaerics in 2022. This release reflects her philosophy of letting exceptional vineyards speak for themselves. Jones approached the 2024 vintage with the same care that defines the world’s finest Chardonnays. The wine spent 11 months in 50% new French oak, followed by another 5 months in stainless steel, building texture and complexity while preserving freshness and energy. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, it captures every layer of minerality, depth, and character the vineyard has to offer. The 2024 vintage gave Jones ideal fruit from her personally selected blocks in the Lede family’s Carneros vineyard. The result earned enthusiastic praise from critics for its purity, balance, and precision. At $79.99, the Overline Chardonnay offers the opportunity to discover one of California’s most promising new producers before the rest of the market catches on.