Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER fermented in cypress wood &

fermented in cypress wood & twice distilled in a copper pot still

The perfect answer to the perennial question

The palate is taut and racy

green apples

fortified and bottled

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER fermented in cypress wood &Wenzlau sits on a dramatic limestone rich hillside above the Santa Ynez River, and it's one of the sites that convinced the Racines team Burgundy's Etienne de Montille and Brian Sieve, with Champagne's Rodolphe Peters to put down roots in California at all. The chalky soils here do something specific to Chardonnay: they give it lift and tension rather than weight. Fermented with native yeasts in large French oak puncheons with only a modest fraction