Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO20230614 This one rests about five

This one rests about five months in French oak that previously held Armagnac and is bottled undiluted at full barrel strength

Simon Tessier runs it now

at yields of just 2

Expect a rose with real presence

and her cellar is essentially a back-of-house operation: hand harvest

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 NO20230614 This one rests about fiveA 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