Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 070226ROBUST real texture

real texture

This is the wine that started it all

Intensely aromatic with notes that display both its fruity and earthy side

and chalky minerality

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 070226ROBUST real textureWenzlau 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