Arnot-Roberts Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Sanford & Benedict 2022 FRFLSH This wine from Chassagne-Montrachet's Sylvain

This wine from Chassagne-Montrachet's Sylvain Morey sings with elegance and power

Harmonious and elegant

Distilled twice in a Christian Carl copper pot still

and aged in barrel with minimal new oak (10-20% max)

What makes this bottle unusual is simply that it exists: a Rhone red with a decade-plus of age on it

Arnot-Roberts Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Sanford & Benedict 2022 FRFLSH This wine from Chassagne-Montrachet's SylvainArnot Roberts helped write the playbook for the "New California": restrained, high acid, low oak wines that reach back to the state's pre blockbuster era. This Chardonnay comes from one of the coast's most storied sites, Sanford & Benedict in the Sta. Rita Hills, where own rooted Wente clone vines were planted in 1971, ten miles from the Pacific and battered by wind. Fermented with wild yeast and raised in neutral oak and steel, it's all about tension