From the Clos Pepe website:

The 2007 Clos Pepe Estate Chardonnay continues a nine year tradition of making a Sta. Rita Hills white wine in the tradition of Chablis. 75% of the wine is fermented and aged in small stainless casks, while 25% is fermented and aged in neutral French oak. The resulting wine is delicate, minerally and quite cellar-worthy.
This year's (2007) Homage to Chablis is only a slight departure from previous years. The wine has a touch of residual sweetness (about half a percent, hardly noticable), which serves as an excellent foil for its strong acidity. We have also added the Dijon 76 clone (50%) to the usual Wente Clone that has made up the HtC wines of the past.
Primary fermentation took almost 9 months for this wine in a very cool cellar we hope you will be as patient with this wine and allow it to rest at least a few years in the cellar before enjoying it with artisan cheeses, shellfish, sushi, BBQ ribs it's a great food wine!
Expect some honeyed and floral-infused apple, pear and tropical fruit note in this wine's youth, buoyed by excellent mineral structure and firm acid.

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