Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER The palate is taut and

The palate is taut and racy

with 20 to 25% of wines vinified in small oak barrels

The perfect answer to the perennial question

Côteaux Sud d’Épernay

Soft and approachable

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER The palate is taut 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