Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER fortified and bottled

fortified and bottled

Côteaux Sud d’Épernay

The base is pot-distilled from 100% rice at the Tsutsumi Distillery in Kumamoto Prefecture

with 20 to 25% of wines vinified in small oak barrels

green apples

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER fortified and bottledWenzlau 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