Clos Julien Chardonnay Sonoma Coast 2024

For many years, Clos Julien has been my go-to wine for that first-sip wow factor. The CJ team has an incredible knack of finding some of the most amazing vineyard sources – many just off the critical radar – allowing me to provide customers with immense value (for a while, until everyone else catches up).

But this Clos Julien is different: in a very, very good way. While the general business model of Clos Julien is to help finance newer high-prestige wineries to secretly move wine until their list grows sufficiently large to sell their entire production direct to consumer, today’s offering comes from an already well-established winery.

In fact, the source for this Chardonnay was one of the few domestic producers I selected when I first started the restaurant along with Kistler, Aubert, and Peter Michael. But like a lot of my friends in California, two extremely excellent, but equally abundant vintages have generated more supply than demand.