Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 EGLY24 a perfectly balanced gin and

a perfectly balanced gin and one of the most awarded gins in the world

Raw almonds

A touch of sweetness is balanced with notes of green grass

sage brush

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 EGLY24 a perfectly balanced gin andWenzlau 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