2019 Fog Crest Estate Vineyard 548 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, CA

Our 548 Estate Chardonnay offers delicious orange blossom and pear flavors with perfectly balanced acidity leading to a long, luscious finish. Sustainable farming methods are practiced to respect Sonoma County’s rich habitat and biological diversity.

At age 27, Rosalind Manoogian was a widowed single mother with an infant daughter and a future that seemed unclear and uncertain. A chance meeting, an old, dilapidated orchard, and a valley rich in possibilities changed the trajectory of her life.

Fog Crest Vineyard is Sonoma’s only Black woman-owned vineyard.

Fog Crest was established in 1998 in the Russian River Valley American Viticultural Area of Sonoma County, California. The estate has a long tradition in agriculture, formerly raising hops, apples, and now wine grapes just north of the town of Sebastopol. The Vineyard got its name from the dense fog that accumulates over the valley. The southeastern facing slope of the vineyard has sandstone-based soil that allows the vines maximum sunshine and drainage, yet the grapes ripen slowly due to the cool morning fog that drapes the vineyard’s crest.