Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 SF Chronicle Individual infusions in grain alcohol

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

A blend of the big three Champagne grapes

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native yeast

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 SF Chronicle Individual infusions in grain alcoholWenzlau 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