Rhys Vineyards Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay Horseshoe Vineyard 2021 extra-brut-selection Changes in what the bees

Changes in what the bees are pollinating from spring to fall will create subtle differences from batch to batch

revealing flavors of ripe apple

There's some lightning fresh energy waiting to be released from the bottle

A bit of smoke

Rhys Vineyards Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay Horseshoe Vineyard 2021 extra-brut-selection Changes in what the beesRhys is one of the few California wineries that made hard core Burgundy drinkers sit up straight not because the wines imitate Burgundy, but because they chase the same thing: elegance, and a sense of place you can actually taste. That means mountain farming on steep Santa Cruz slopes, cold Pacific air pulling in from ten miles away, punishingly low yields, and an obsession with getting rock and exposure into the glass. Horseshoe sits around 1,500