2022 | I. Brand & Family Chardonnay "Escolle Vineyard" | Santa Lucia Highlands | USA

A gossamer, dry-farmed Chardonnay from a cult Central Coast winemaker — Santa Lucia Highlands elegance, not weight.

Ian Brand of I. Brand & Family is celebrated for coaxing elegance from overlooked Central Coast sites. This Chardonnay comes from the dry-farmed Escolle Vineyard on an elevated bench of the Santa Lucia Highlands — a historic site established in 1878, farmed without herbicides. Ian's is a "light on its feet, gossamer-winged" style: mineral, precise, and far from any heavy California cliché.

Dry-farmed, elegant Santa Lucia Highlands Chardonnay from a cult name is a smart white buy. Precise, mineral, gossamer → elegant Central Coast Chardonnay overdelivers → at $40.99 you're drinking one of the coast's most graceful whites.

• 100% Chardonnay
• Santa Lucia Highlands — dry-farmed Escolle Vineyard (est. 1878)
• I. Brand & Family — Ian Brand; sustainable, no herbicides
• Elegant, mineral, low-intervention style

White peach, lemon and orchard blossom over a fine, chalky minerality and a bright, gossamer-light finish. Translation: graceful, mineral Chardonnay — citrus and stone fruit with delicacy and cut, elegance over power.

An elegant, dry-farmed Chardonnay from a cult Central Coast grower. Exactly the white for those who find most California Chardonnay too much.