Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER Côteaux Sud d’Épernay

Côteaux Sud d’Épernay

The perfect answer to the perennial question

The base is pot-distilled from 100% rice at the Tsutsumi Distillery in Kumamoto Prefecture

green apples

with 20 to 25% of wines vinified in small oak barrels

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER Côteaux Sud d’ÉpernayWenzlau 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