Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Sanford & Benedict Vineyard 2020 extra-brut-selection they would magnify Glenmorangie’s creamy

they would magnify Glenmorangie’s creamy character

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Traditional wild yeast fermentation in stainless steel and foudre (20%) followed by lees aging with bâtonnage for six months

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Sanford & Benedict Vineyard 2020 extra-brut-selection they would magnify Glenmorangie’s creamyThese are the oldest Chardonnay vines in the Sta. Rita Hills, planted at Sanford & Benedict in 1971, back when the idea of great California Chardonnay this far south was borderline eccentric. Racines the Burgundian team of Etienne de Montille and Brian Sieve farms a parcel of that original planting on a gently north facing slope of thin shale and chert soils. The winemaking is deliberately restrained: fermentation across puncheons, barrels and