I Brand and Family Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay Escolle Vineyard 2023 Wine Bar | Featured White where the Kimmeridgian limestone matches

where the Kimmeridgian limestone matches Chablis

off-dry Mosel Riesling in its most classical and ageworthy form

Named after Grandfather Peter Lauer

created by Enzo Brini whose family owns the Il Conventino wine estate in Montepulciano

Zinfandel is the grape that put Dry Creek Valley on the map

I Brand and Family Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay Escolle Vineyard 2023 Wine Bar | Featured White where the Kimmeridgian limestone matchesEscolle sits at the cool northern end of the Santa Lucia Highlands, on a bench that a French immigrant named Honore Escolle bought as a summer property back in 1878. Ian Brand's Chardonnay from it is a study in restraint: whole cluster pressed, barrel fermented with a minority of new French oak, ten months on the lees, then finished in stainless steel to sharpen the edges back up. That last step is the trick. It gives the wine the texture of a barrel