Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Savagnin 2024 NO20230809 Husband and wife team Virginie

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

offers a balanced middle ground between the sherried intensity of the Sherry Oak range and lighter expressions

with yellow fruit and white peach dancing across wet stone and slate minerality

Combined with traditional worm tub condensers (rather than modern shell-and-tube)

working a family estate he took over in 1985

Ghostwriter Santa Cruz Mountains Savagnin 2024 NO20230809 Husband and wife team VirginieSavagnin, 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