Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay ['19 Base] NV campaign-feature Winemaker Vincent Ruiz inherited vines

Winemaker Vincent Ruiz inherited vines worked without chemicals for over 20 years

30% Pinot Noir & 10% Chardonnay

5% ARBANNE

fermented with native yeasts and bottled unfined and unfiltered in tiny quantities

Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay ['19 Base] NV campaign-feature Winemaker Vincent Ruiz inherited vinesA Burgundy vigneron and a Champagne grower walked into Santa Barbara and decided to make sparkling wine. Racines is the joint project of Etienne de Montille and Brian Sieve, plus Rodolphe Peters of the great Le Mesnil house Pierre Peters, and the Grand Reserve is where the Champagne half of that brain trust really shows. It's a blanc de blancs, all Chardonnay, drawn from three of the Sta. Rita Hills' best cool climate sites: Wenzlau, Sanford &