Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER now part of the Domaines

now part of the Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) portfolio

Made just once a year in a small batch

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

and dark fruit sweetness to rye's natural spice

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO WINE SEARCHER now part of the DomainesA 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