Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 EGLY24 From the producer: The first

From the producer: The first nose reveals summer berries with notes of cherry and wild strawberry

This organic wine from high Alpine slopes blends Petit Rouge with indigenous varieties including Vien de Nus and Fumin

Aged on the lees for several years

There is a touch of pollen and honey on the nose with very restrained fruit and lots of rocky acidity

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 EGLY24 From the producer: The firstWenzlau 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