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2019 Racines, Bentrock Chardonnay, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

  • White
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Chardonnay
Ready - at best
Product: 20198049854
2019 Racines, Bentrock Chardonnay, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

Description

There is enough wood to notice framing the smoky aromas of poached pear, apple, citrus and acacia blossom. There is an almost painful intensity to the sleek, linear and beautifully delineated flavours that deliver first-rate length on the very dry and impressively persistent finish. This is really very stylish, indeed even classy, and a wine that should repay mid-term cellaring—lovely juice and worth a special search to find.

Drink from 2026 onward

Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (April 2022)

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Chardonnay
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Racines Wines

About this wine

Chardonnay

Chardonnay is often seen as the king of white wine grapes and one of the most widely planted in the world It is suited to a wide variety of soils, though it excels in soils with a high limestone content as found in Champagne, Chablis, and the Côte D`Or. Burgundy is Chardonnay's spiritual home and the best White Burgundies are dry, rich, honeyed wines with marvellous poise, elegance and balance. They are unquestionably the finest dry white wines in the world. Chardonnay plays a crucial role in the Champagne blend, providing structure and finesse, and is the sole grape in Blanc de Blancs.
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Racines Wines

Burgundian winemakers Étienne de Montille and Brian Sieve joined with Champagne’s Rodolphe Peters to form Racines, in California’s Santa Rita Hills.
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