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A bit of smoke
The grapes come from silt-rich clay soil with excellent exposure to the South-East to guarantee perfectly mature grapes for a powerhouse of a wine but also balanced
There's some lightning fresh energy waiting to be released from the bottle
It is pale in the glass and loaded with red fruit
Changes in what the bees are pollinating from spring to fall will create subtle differences from batch to batch
Rhys Vineyards Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay Horseshoe Vineyard 2021 extra-brut-selection A bit of smokeRhys is one of the few California wineries that made hard core Burgundy drinkers sit up straight not because the wines imitate Burgundy, but because they chase the same thing: elegance, and a sense of place you can actually taste. That means mountain farming on steep Santa Cruz slopes, cold Pacific air pulling in from ten miles away, punishingly low yields, and an obsession with getting rock and exposure into the glass. Horseshoe sits around 1,500
