Outward Wines, Chardonnay Bassi Vineyard San Luis Obispo County, 2024 102225OFFER Jean-Philippe Fichet is best known

Jean-Philippe Fichet is best known as a master of Meursault

lending the wine a velvety mouthfeel

contributing depth and character even to their regional bottlings

found a genius way to make crisp

wild-yeast fermented in stainless steel

Outward Wines, Chardonnay Bassi Vineyard San Luis Obispo County, 2024 102225OFFER Jean-Philippe Fichet is best knownA salty, flinty California Chardonnay made the way you wish more were. Bassi Vineyard sits 1. 2 miles from the cold Pacific above Avila Beach, biodynamically farmed on a south facing hillside of marine sandstone and sandy loam. Outward's Ryan Pace and Natalie Siddique pick early, ferment with native yeast, and age 10 months on undisturbed lees in neutral oak. There's no malolactic flab, no buttery makeover, no oak veneer: just lemon, sea spray,