Ultramarine Blanc de Blancs Heintz Vineyard Sonoma Coast
Tasted 27 June 2026
Sonoma County · Sonoma Coast
Broad and ripe, but also focused and framed, this bottle of the 2016 Heintz is full of lemon and yeast flavors that are indeed forward, but balanced and measured in overall intensity and volume. Absent the funk notes…
Yellow and white pear dominant, with lemon, malt, and frothy white mineral elements making for a rather ripe and hefty performance, but one in which balance and seamlessness is properly maintained. A…
This is a much meatier and advanced version than what I’ve experienced from the 2018 Rose. In fairness to the producer, it was an auction bottle (with a disgorgement date a week later than the ones I…
Though the lemon and apple flavors are sound and controlled, they are laced with a sourness in this vintage that never fully shakes off during the entirety of consumption. I don’t mind it, but I…
