Samuel Louis Smith Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Spear Vineyard 2024 CS20231023 It is a masterful bottle

It is a masterful bottle of perfectly young rye

and the wine is aged on fine lees in tonneau

and wet limestone

so you get texture without a heavy oak stamp

Fresh cut violets

Samuel Louis Smith Sta. Rita Hills Chardonnay Spear Vineyard 2024 CS20231023 It is a masterful bottleSpear Vineyard is one of the most talked about young sites in the Sta. Rita Hills planted in 2014, farmed organically by Ofer Shepher, climbing steep north facing slopes along Highway 246 with marine clay, sand, and chert in the soil. Sam Smith the former Morgan winemaker turned micro negociant treats the fruit with restraint, fermenting on native yeast in tank with partial malolactic, then aging in a mix of new and neutral oak plus stainless. The