Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER Even now I loved this

Even now I loved this wine and recommend a long decant if you can't wait a few years to enjoy it later

Up here the vines are old

this wine rewards cellaring for more than a decade

Be More Kind takes the classic approach: earthy Centennial and Simcoe hops over a balanced malt backbone

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER Even now I loved thisA 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