Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Savagnin 2024 NO20230809 working a family estate he

working a family estate he took over in 1985

and graphite alongside red and black cherry

Husband and wife team Virginie and Vincent Vanpoperingh run this small family estate on the banks of the River Marne in Damery

famously "weightless" in texture yet endlessly perfumed and long

a brush of toast

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Savagnin 2024 NO20230809 working a family estate heSavagnin, the Jura's signature white grape and the one behind vin jaune, grown in the fog of the Santa Cruz Mountains: about as rare as California white wine gets. Kenny and Lynn Likitprakong have built Ghostwriter around whites that lean French rather than Californian in shape, and this is the clearest statement of that ambition, made the way everything here is made, with native fermentation, neutral vessels and minimal handling. Zesty, salty and