Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 Esthers and a steelier core

and a steelier core

bright and impossible to overthink

and Nebbiolo is the boldest bet in the lineup

Drink this one now and love your life

From a single estate vineyard

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 Esthers and a steelier coreA 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