Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 SF Chronicle with a long and sweet

with a long and sweet marzipan finish

In 2019 named whiskey of the year by The Whisky Exchange

A blend of the big three Champagne grapes

elegant profile and exacting production standards

Individual infusions in grain alcohol between 30-35 days are blended and redistilled

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 SF Chronicle with a long and sweetWenzlau 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