Rhys Vineyards Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay Horseshoe Vineyard 2021 CS20230906 and honeyed on the nose

and honeyed on the nose and palate

blackberry compote

and floral with a touch of tropical fruit

Blending of these vineyards (slope and gentle-slope) produces a charming wine which is soft in the mouth from its youth

Rhys Vineyards Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay Horseshoe Vineyard 2021 CS20230906 and honeyed on the noseRhys is one of the few California wineries that made hard core Burgundy drinkers sit up straight not because the wines imitate Burgundy, but because they chase the same thing: elegance, and a sense of place you can actually taste. That means mountain farming on steep Santa Cruz slopes, cold Pacific air pulling in from ten miles away, punishingly low yields, and an obsession with getting rock and exposure into the glass. Horseshoe sits around 1,500