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licorice and black pepper
For anyone who loves the northern Rhone
Serious white wine without a hint of pretension
it unfolds with white peach
Big Basin Vineyards Santa Cruz Chardonnay Howard Family Vineyard 2019 Jura and Savoie licorice and black pepperA direct answer to anyone who thinks California Chardonnay can't age. Big Basin farms this old vine parcel in the Santa Cruz Mountains, planted back in 1977 on sandy loam over bedrock, just miles from the cold water of Monterey Bay. That maritime chill keeps natural acidity high and the wine taut. Made with a light hand, aged in French oak and then rested in stainless, unfined and unfiltered, it's built on restraint rather than richness. A structured,
