Summer Dreams comes from Jayson Woodbridge, the uncompromising force behind Hundred Acre, but its sights are set west, toward the cool vineyards of the Sonoma Coast. Stargazing Chardonnay is a new expression from that project, bringing the same obsessive approach to vineyard selection that has defined Woodbridge’s wines for decades to Chardonnay. For Summer Dreams, that search has meant exploring more than a hundred vineyards and focusing on sites with the right combination of slope, vine age and the Coast’s distinctive Goldridge soils. The result is less an extension of Hundred Acre than another side of the same philosophy: find remarkable ground, demand everything from it, and don’t dilute its personality. The white wines are led by winemaker Ashley Holland, whose career has taken her through California, Oregon, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay, including work alongside Bob Cabral before joining Woodbridge at Summer Dreams. Here, the raw material is Chardonnay grown in the cool maritime environment of the Sonoma Coast, where Pacific influence tempers the growing season and Chardonnay can develop richness without surrendering freshness. Summer Dreams describes its vineyards as small and hand-farmed, with a particular fascination for Goldridge, the fine-grained sandy loam prized along the western Sonoma Coast for its drainage and its ability to produce wines with both concentration and lift. That combination comes through in Stargazing’s balance of richness and tension. Citrus moves toward lime zest and lemon curd, while a creamy, generous texture gives the wine breadth without obscuring its freshness. There is real substance here, but also the energy that has become central to the Summer Dreams white-wine style, carrying the wine through a long, polished finish. **Stargazing is Chardonnay through the Summer Dreams lens: coastal, textural and ambitious, from a team applying the standards of one of Napa Valley’s most exacting wine programs to the radically different landscape of Sonoma.**