Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 Esthers Drink this one now and

Drink this one now and love your life

Light on its feet but seriously built

Charming aromatcs of toasted hazelnut

Bright and citrusy on the nose

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 Esthers Drink this one now andA 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