I Brand and Family Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay Escolle Vineyard 2023 Wine Bar | Featured White Named after Grandfather Peter Lauer

Named after Grandfather Peter Lauer

created by Enzo Brini whose family owns the Il Conventino wine estate in Montepulciano

off-dry Mosel Riesling in its most classical and ageworthy form

vinified as a white and finished extra brut

I Brand and Family Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay Escolle Vineyard 2023 Wine Bar | Featured White Named after Grandfather Peter LauerEscolle sits at the cool northern end of the Santa Lucia Highlands, on a bench that a French immigrant named Honore Escolle bought as a summer property back in 1878. Ian Brand's Chardonnay from it is a study in restraint: whole cluster pressed, barrel fermented with a minority of new French oak, ten months on the lees, then finished in stainless steel to sharpen the edges back up. That last step is the trick. It gives the wine the texture of a barrel