2017 Under the Wire Chuy Vineyard Sparkling Chardonnay Casa Mariol The soils are granitic sandy

The soils are granitic sandy loam

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Larry can now focus his resuscitative skills on the various old vineyards that comprise the wines he loves

The wine is unfiltered and unfined

2017 Under the Wire Chuy Vineyard Sparkling Chardonnay Casa Mariol The soils are granitic sandyThe 2017 Sparkling Chardonnay Chuy is one of the most distinctive wines I have tasted from Under the Wire. It emerges from the Chuy Vineyard (now Midslope) originally planted with Chardonnay on St. George rootstock by famed vineyard manager Chuy Ordaz. The site has since been acquired by Kistler and been totally redeveloped, so this wine is an ode to the past. And what a swan song it is. Rich, deep and bold, with tons of pure Chardonnay intensity, the