Frequently, visitors to the Hayseed tasting room tell us that they have given up on Chardonnay. We get it, having been subjected too many times to inexpensive, poorly made chards poured at low-budget weddings in the summer of our youth. It is very satisfying, then, to have visitors experience the surprise of our Steel Reins stainless steel fermented chardonnay. It is light, crisp, dry and obviously NOT oaked - the flavor component we suspect gave many folks reason to abandon chardonnay at some point earlier in their lives.
We share profits from the sale of Steel Reins with Lumina Alliance, a SLO County-based organization that provides crisis intervention, counseling and other services to survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence.