Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER Up here the vines are

Up here the vines are old

this wine rewards cellaring for more than a decade

now part of the Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) portfolio

The high polishing rate give this sake defined fruit and floral expression while still offering rich umami from the highly flavorful local hida-homare rice

subtle floral undertones

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER Up here the vines areA California Chardonnay built like a cool northern French white: lean, saline and driven by acid rather than padded with oak. Kenny and Lynn Likitprakong draw it from two Santa Cruz Mountains sites, old vines at Woodruff in Corralitos dating to the 1970s and the Amaya Ridge parcel above Soquel that they planted themselves in 2011. The fruit is whole cluster pressed and then largely left alone: native fermentation, a long stretch on the lees, no