Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine and gravel dust

and gravel dust

back when nearly every other American brewery was pointed squarely at hops

A quirkly blend of 49% Aligoté

Seville Oranges have a brief growing season and are only available in California for a few short weeks - which makes this product even more special

where marginal ripening creates wines of freshness and lift rather than heft

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine and gravel dustWenzlau 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