2023 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru, Cote de Beaune, France New Zealand Los Chuchaquis is a collaboration

Los Chuchaquis is a collaboration between Ryan Stirm

early-drinking red from Jean-Baptiste Sénat

Soil: Sábrego (decomposed granite and sand)

and in 2020 he got a ton of Merlot to make his first wine from

Monterey County

2023 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru, Cote de Beaune, France New Zealand Los Chuchaquis is a collaborationThis biodynamically farmed Chardonnay comes from the high, stony terrace of Chevalier Montrachet, where thin soils over hard limestone give power with exceptional tension. The fruit is hand harvested and gently pressed, then fermented with native yeasts in oak. levage runs about twelve months in barrels with a restrained share of new wood, followed by six months in tank to harmonize before a light fining. The 2023 is concentrated yet crystalline,