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Little Trouble

Little Trouble Champi Vineyard Chardonnay 2023

$30.00 ~~Regular price:$35.00~~

Style: Dry, medium-bodied white; textured and fruit-forward with lively acidity and a savory, mineral edge from skin contact
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Chardonnay; iron-rich Redvine and Manzanita soils; north end of Redwood Valley AVA, Mendocino County, California; gap in coastal ridge allows Pacific air currents, creating cooler conditions and gradual fruit ripening
Winemaking: 50% destemmed; skin fermentation in neutral vessel to dryness; pressed into neutral barrels; native primary and secondary fermentation; unfined, unfiltered; minimal sulfur
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 50-54°F; no decanting needed
Pairing: Roast chicken with herbs
Similar to: Skin-contact white Burgundy, Pet Nat Chardonnay, natural Mâcon-Villages

Little Trouble Champi Vineyard Chardonnay 2023 is a dry white wine made by Little Trouble Wine Co., sourced from the Champi Vineyard at the northern end of the Redwood Valley AVA in Mendocino County, California. The vineyard has been farmed by the Champi family since the 1970s, on iron-rich Redvine and Manzanita soils. For this wine, 50% of the fruit was destemmed and fermented on skins in a neutral vessel until dryness, then pressed into neutral barrels. Little Trouble Champi Vineyard Chardonnay 2023 underwent native primary and secondary fermentation, and is bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur.

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Little Trouble Champi Vineyard Chardonnay 2023

$30.00~~$35.00~~

Producer profile

Little Trouble

Little Trouble Wine Co. is a California-based natural wine project co-founded in 2020 by Jennifer Reichardt and Sara Morgenstern, two industry veterans who met in 2016 while working for a Sonoma Coast producer. Reichardt was the assistant winemaker; Morgenstern was the sales director. After several years of sharing bottles and building a friendship rooted in a mutual love of low-intervention wines, they launched Little Trouble together when Reichardt discovered Stampede Vineyard in Lodi and recognized its potential as a foundation for a new label.

Reichardt brings deep winemaking experience to the partnership. Her family has been in California's food industry since 1901, raising ducks for Bay Area restaurants, and she completed her first harvest in Sonoma County in 2011. Over the following years she worked harvests in the Sonoma Coast, Chile, and Australia before founding her own label, Raft Wines, in 2016. Morgenstern's background spans lab work, wine buying, national sales, and winemaking across California, New York, Florida, and New Zealand, and she continues to work as Director of Operations for Ruth Lewandowski Wines.

The Little Trouble philosophy centers on sourcing organically farmed fruit from distinctive vineyard sites and keeping cellar intervention to a minimum. Native yeast fermentation, neutral vessels, no fining, no filtration, and minimal sulfur are consistent practices across the range. The Champi Vineyard Chardonnay is one of their most personal wines: the two winemakers spent years searching for a single-site Chardonnay that could become a permanent part of the Little Trouble portfolio, and Champi Vineyard at the north end of Redwood Valley is the result. The vineyard is farmed exclusively by Mitch Champi, whose family planted the site in the 1970s.

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Wine region

California, United States

Redwood Valley is a small American Viticultural Area in Mendocino County, in Northern California's North Coast wine country. Established as an AVA in 1996, it sits roughly 100 miles north of San Francisco and occupies an upland valley floor approximately 200 ft higher in elevation than the surrounding Ukiah Valley to the south. That elevation, combined with a gap in the coastal ridge to the west, allows cool Pacific air currents to funnel into the valley in a way that does not reach most of Mendocino's other inland appellations. The result is a climate that is measurably cooler than neighboring zones, with a longer growing season and a later harvest date relative to surrounding areas.

The valley's most distinctive feature is its soil. Iron-rich Redvine soil, a rust-colored, well-draining type found in significant concentration here and rarely elsewhere, gives Redwood Valley its strongest claim to viticultural identity. Manzanita soils, another local type, are also present, particularly at higher-elevation sites toward the north end of the valley where Champi Vineyard sits. Together these soils produce vines with deep root systems and low vigor, resulting in grapes with concentrated flavors and firm natural acidity.

Redwood Valley was the first area in Mendocino County to see commercial viticulture, planted by Italian immigrants in the mid-19th century. Those early settlers recognized the combination of climate and soil as ideal for wine grapes, and the valley retains that agricultural heritage today in vineyards like Champi, which has been in continuous family ownership since the 1970s. While the valley is best known historically for Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, and old-vine red varieties, Chardonnay grown on its cooler northern sites produces wines with a tighter, more structured profile than is typical of warmer California appellations.

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We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

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Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

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