Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Sanford & Benedict Vineyard 2020 Old Rioja *Face Nord* is a deeply

*Face Nord* is a deeply expressive Champagne that highlights the best of Verzenay's terroir

known to have been enjoyed by French farmhands and vineyard workers

We prioritize local

Writers' Tears is triple distilled

almonds and lilac aromas

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Sanford & Benedict Vineyard 2020 Old Rioja *Face Nord* is a deeplyThese are the oldest Chardonnay vines in the Sta. Rita Hills, planted at Sanford & Benedict in 1971, back when the idea of great California Chardonnay this far south was borderline eccentric. Racines the Burgundian team of Etienne de Montille and Brian Sieve farms a parcel of that original planting on a gently north facing slope of thin shale and chert soils. The winemaking is deliberately restrained: fermentation across puncheons, barrels and