Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 051826OFFER extended oak aging

extended oak aging

Fresh red fruit

Old Hill Ranch is one of the most pedigreed old-vine sites in the United States

Drinking in its prime and built to last another decade-plus

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 051826OFFER extended oak agingA 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