Black Stallion North Coast Chardonnay White Wine, California

The store listing names the grape and sets a price, but it does not say who is behind the wine. The producer fills that in: Black Stallion Estate Winery says it opened its Napa Valley winery in 2007, on the property that had been the Silverado Horseman's Center.

The listing gives the origin as California. 2 shoppers have rated it. Their average is 4.5 out of five. In September 2026 its lowest listing came to $16.99.

Across seven stores the top figure we recorded in those September 2026 checks was $22.99. Chardonnay is a white grape our research describes as taking oak more than one way: skip the oak for a lighter build, or ferment and age in oak for more weight. Category guides tie its flavors to ripeness, citrus and apple when the fruit is cooler grown, stone fruit or tropical fruit when riper, with oak able to add toast and spice when the maker goes that way

The producer's page fills in more than the store listing does: this is the 2023 vintage, the first release under Black Stallion's North Coast label, made entirely from Chardonnay and listing 14.5 percent alcohol. Detailed tasting notes are not published for this wine; the page points to a downloadable fact sheet that a check of the producer's own sitemap could not locate, for this wine or any other in the lineup. Black Stallion positions it as the entry point into its Chardonnay range: the producer also sells a Heritage Chardonnay and limited-release bottlings from Los Carneros and Napa Valley, priced higher. The winemaking team behind it includes head winemaker Ralf Holdenried, who joined in 2014, working with Shawn Brynildson and fourth-generation Delicato family member Stephen Mathews, under a family whose California winemaking traces to a 1924 vineyard the Indelicatos planted in Manteca.

Our call: a reasonable pick if the maker's history is enough for you on its own; Black Stallion states this is the winery's first North Coast Chardonnay release, backed by a winemaking team the producer names outright and a family whose roots in California wine go back a century. Pass if you buy on the crowd's word; two shoppers have rated it so far, a start and not yet a reputation, and the producer publishes no tasting notes for this particular wine.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.