Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 EGLY24 There is a touch of

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

but with Noble hop varieties that are more delicate than their American counterparts

a perfectly balanced gin and one of the most awarded gins in the world

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

The nose is fresh and layered

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 EGLY24 There is a touch ofWenzlau 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