Samuel Louis Smith Monterey County Chardonnay Les Granitiers 2024 Wine Seminar The "A" bottling pulls from

The "A" bottling pulls from multiple blocks across the estate and spends 12 months in used French oak

deepening into lean

Hans-Bert Espe and Silke Wolf made their first wines in a bunker on an abandoned Canadian air force airfield in Baden

malolactic complete

then bottled with zero dosage

Samuel Louis Smith Monterey County Chardonnay Les Granitiers 2024 Wine Seminar The "A" bottling pulls fromSamuel Louis Smith is one of the most exciting young names in California, a former Morgan winemaker who launched his own micro negociant label after stints in Bordeaux, the Northern Rhone, and Champagne. Les Granitiers is his entry level Chardonnay, sourced from organically farmed sites in Monterey County and named for the granite based soils that define the region. It's native fermented and aged in mostly neutral barrel and some stainless, with oak