Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER The base is pot-distilled from

The base is pot-distilled from 100% rice at the Tsutsumi Distillery in Kumamoto Prefecture

green apples

This gin is noticeably lacking juniper but is heavy on fruit and florals like peach

Soft and approachable

Racines Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Wenzlau Vineyard 2020 050526OFFER The base is pot-distilled fromWenzlau sits on a dramatic limestone rich hillside above the Santa Ynez River, and it's one of the sites that convinced the Racines team Burgundy's Etienne de Montille and Brian Sieve, with Champagne's Rodolphe Peters to put down roots in California at all. The chalky soils here do something specific to Chardonnay: they give it lift and tension rather than weight. Fermented with native yeasts in large French oak puncheons with only a modest fraction