Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 SF Chronicle Harmonious Mineral Barolo with Scents

Harmonious Mineral Barolo with Scents of flowers and delicate spice

or on ice with orange

native yeast

the rest from Bouzy

elegant profile and exacting production standards

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 SF Chronicle Harmonious Mineral Barolo with ScentsWenzlau 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