Trail Marker Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 CS20230804 This is his entry-tier Saumur

This is his entry-tier Saumur Blanc

complexities

raised entirely in steel with no oak anywhere near it

rounded charm

Trail Marker Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay 2023 CS20230804 This is his entry-tier SaumurTrail Marker is the project of Drew Huffine and Emily Virgil a husband and wife team making old world leaning Chardonnay and Pinot from California's cool, fog licked corners. Drew cut his teeth at Copain, DuMol, and Kosta Browne, but the wines here go the other way: low alcohol, high acid, hands off in the cellar, place driven. This Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay draws from family farmed sites high in the redwoods, where coastal fog keeps the fruit