Trail Marker Manchester Ridge Vineyard Chardonnay 2021 champagne-club Made in a neoclassical California

Made in a neoclassical California style with native ferments

vinified the old-fashioned way and bottled unfiltered after roughly three years in cask

Call it a weeknight ticket into the Langhe

hard against the Beaune boundary

Located west of the Vanne lieu-dit in cooler microclimate conditions with minimal topsoil

Trail Marker Manchester Ridge Vineyard Chardonnay 2021 champagne-club Made in a neoclassical CaliforniaManchester Ridge is an island in the sky. The vineyard sits at around 2,000 feet, four miles from the Pacific, on one of the ridgetops that poke up through the Mendocino fog and give the Mendocino Ridge AVA its nickname. Fruit up there hangs a long time, developing flavor while holding onto acid, which is exactly what Drew Huffine and Emily Virgil are hunting for at Trail Marker. Their philosophy is simple: find the cold, extreme coastal sites, then