Florez Wines 'Pegleg' Chardonnay 2023 Santa Cruz, California

Taste: Aromas of lime, white peach, and pineapple. Low yields and a slightly riper vintage give this wine a round-mouth feel.

Grapes: Chardonnay

Place: Sonoma, California

Story: Steep south-facing hillside with well-drained metavolcanic soils. Farmed by James’s friend and peer David Rothschild, an upcoming figure within the natural California winemakers as a proud and skillful organic grower.

Half of the fruit was foot tread, and pressed the following day. The other half was direct pressed. Hence the name Pegleg, one foot in one foot out (also David, the grower, is half pirate, James says). Both were barrel fermented in neutral French oak with native yeasts & bacteria. Topped, left undisturbed & sur lie for 10 months before a single racking, then bottled. No additives including no added sulfites.

Distributor: Jenny & Francois