2024 | Foxen Chenin Blanc "Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard" | Santa Maria Valley | USA

Old-vine California Chenin Blanc from a Santa Barbara pioneer — a rare, serious take on an underdog grape.

Foxen is one of Santa Barbara County's most respected wineries, and this Chenin Blanc comes from the old-vine Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard in the Santa Maria Valley — one of California's most prized sources for the variety. Serious Chenin from old California vines is a rarity, and Foxen's is a benchmark: textural, mineral and dry.

Old-vine California Chenin from a top source is a somm's secret handshake. Textural, mineral and age-worthy → great Chenin is criminally underpriced → at $45.99 you're drinking one of California's finest whites from an overlooked grape.

• 100% Chenin Blanc
• Santa Maria Valley, Santa Barbara County — Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard (old vines)
• Foxen — a Santa Barbara pioneer
• Dry, textural, mineral style

Quince, yellow apple and citrus over beeswax, wet stone and a bright, honeyed-yet-dry finish. Translation: textured, mineral California Chenin — orchard fruit and lanolin with vivid acidity and a long, savory close.

A rare old-vine California Chenin from a benchmark producer. Exactly the white for the drinker who's tasted everything else.