Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER This gin is noticeably lacking

This gin is noticeably lacking juniper but is heavy on fruit and florals like peach

The palate is taut and racy

incredibly rich and elegant

green apples

The base is pot-distilled from 100% rice at the Tsutsumi Distillery in Kumamoto Prefecture

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER This gin is noticeably lackingWenzlau 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