Baxter Mendocino Chardonnay Oppenlander Vineyard 2022 agrapart less than 100 ft from

less than 100 ft from the Atlantic Ocean

rounded out with a little Chardonnay and Malvasia de Sitges

then blended just before bottling

Expect pear and yellow apple

Baxter Mendocino Chardonnay Oppenlander Vineyard 2022 agrapart less than 100 ft fromChablis in spirit, grown less than ten miles from the Pacific: the Oppenlander vineyard sits near Comptche in a cold, remote pocket of Mendocino, and Baxter picks it late to get flavor without weight. The fruit is hand harvested and whole cluster pressed, fermented slowly on native yeasts, then aged about twelve months on its lees in neutral French oak texture from the barrel, no oak flavor. Phil Baxter trained at UC Davis and in Burgundy across