Trail Marker Manchester Ridge Vineyard Chardonnay 2021 champagne-club hard against the Beaune boundary

hard against the Beaune boundary

Call it a weeknight ticket into the Langhe

the palate echoes barbecue smoke

and the wine reflects exactly that

vinified the old-fashioned way and bottled unfiltered after roughly three years in cask

Trail Marker Manchester Ridge Vineyard Chardonnay 2021 champagne-club hard against the Beaune boundaryManchester Ridge is an island in the sky. The vineyard sits at around 2,000 feet, four miles from the Pacific, on one of the ridgetops that poke up through the Mendocino fog and give the Mendocino Ridge AVA its nickname. Fruit up there hangs a long time, developing flavor while holding onto acid, which is exactly what Drew Huffine and Emily Virgil are hunting for at Trail Marker. Their philosophy is simple: find the cold, extreme coastal sites, then