Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 070226ROBUST The palate is thick with

The palate is thick with notes of vanilla bean

solid tannin structure

From the producer: intense garnet-red color

with notes of chocolate and tobacco and a smoky finish

using primarily foraged fruit

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 070226ROBUST The palate is thick withWenzlau 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