Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay ['19 Base] NV campaign-feature Franciacorta is made by the

Franciacorta is made by the same painstaking traditional method — second fermentation in the bottle

with an excellent long finish

fermented with native yeasts and bottled unfined and unfiltered in tiny quantities

5% ARBANNE

Racines Grand Reserve Sparkling Chardonnay ['19 Base] NV campaign-feature Franciacorta is made by theA Burgundy vigneron and a Champagne grower walked into Santa Barbara and decided to make sparkling wine. Racines is the joint project of Etienne de Montille and Brian Sieve, plus Rodolphe Peters of the great Le Mesnil house Pierre Peters, and the Grand Reserve is where the Champagne half of that brain trust really shows. It's a blanc de blancs, all Chardonnay, drawn from three of the Sta. Rita Hills' best cool climate sites: Wenzlau, Sanford &