2002 Scholium Project Sylphs Guman Vineyard

(100% chardonnay, from vines planted in the 1970s) Full straw-gold color. Exotic aromas of honeycomb and toffee; smells like botrytis. Sweet, smoky, fat and rich, with a distinctly wild, gamey character to the honeyed, toasty fruit. Very glyceral chardonnay with 16+% alcohol. This one took a full two years to finish its sugar fermentation and went through full malolactic.