Whitcraft, Santa Rita Ranch Chardonnay, 2023
Pence Ranch sits in the Sta. Rita Hills, one of California's coldest and windiest appellations, where the valley opens east to west and drags Pacific air straight across the vines — conditions that keep Chardonnay lean, high-toned and mineral. This is the same ranch behind Whitcraft's Calera-clone Pinot, seen through a white lens. Drake Whitcraft, who runs the winery his late father Chris founded, makes it the low-intervention way the family always has: native fermentation, aging in neutral puncheons rather than new oak, minimal sulfur, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Nothing here is dialed up to impress; the wind and the soil do the talking. Set it next to the Santa Maria Tinaquaic and you can taste how much cooler, saltier and more electric the Sta. Rita Hills runs.
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Pence Ranch sits in the Sta. Rita Hills, one of California's coldest and windiest appellations, where the valley opens east to west and drags Pacific air straight across the vines — conditions that keep Chardonnay lean, high-toned and mineral. This is the same ranch behind Whitcraft's Calera-clone Pinot, seen through a white lens. Drake Whitcraft, who runs the winery his late father Chris founded, makes it the low-intervention way the family always has: native fermentation, aging in neutral puncheons rather than new oak, minimal sulfur, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Nothing here is dialed up to impress; the wind and the soil do the talking. Set it next to the Santa Maria Tinaquaic and you can taste how much cooler, saltier and more electric the Sta. Rita Hills runs.
