Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 26REASONABLE Espadin 6 to 8 years

Espadin 6 to 8 years old mixed with wild Tobasiche 15 to 18 years old

Venus Spirits' interpretation of this traditional Scandinavian spirit highlights caraway seed with a balance of juniper

The few years of age on the bottle integrates the tension and crisp acid into the middleweight fruit and provides the wine with tightrope-esque balance

aged in a mix of twice-used bourbon

roundness and fruitiness) is issued from several crus from the Vallée de la Marne and from the Epernay area

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 26REASONABLE Espadin 6 to 8 yearsWenzlau 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