Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay ['19 Base] NV CS20230731 Complex with dark fruit notes

Complex with dark fruit notes

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Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay ['19 Base] NV CS20230731 Complex with dark fruit notesA 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 &