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Ricky Stancliffe

Ricky Stancliffe

CEO and owner of Trombetta Family Wines, a boutique winery in the Petaluma Gap AVA of Sonoma County.

Jul 24, 2026

15:17
So tell us about the wine.
15:18
This is our Trombetta Family Wines 2021 Chardonnay from the Petaluma Gap, Gap's Crown Vineyard.
15:28
And my daughter, Erica Stancliffe, is the winemaker.
15:34
She has an amazing palate.
15:36
She really understands about balancing the richness of the fruit with good acidity, not too much oak.
15:46
We use probably about 33% new French oak.
15:50
But she also uses Surly's Batonnage, which is a fancy way of saying that the dead yeast cells that... are in the bottom of the belly of the barrel, she mixes those up about every 8 to 10 days.

8 MINS LATER

24:28
Tell us about it, Ricky.

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