aniseed and orange peel

(Mézes Mály translates as “honey-place”)

marrying fruit from Calistoga

blue and black fruits and hints of camphor and graphite as well as forest floor notes in a medium-bodied

2021, LIOCO SoCo Sonoma County Chardonnay White Zinfandel aniseed and orange peelAll of the unhinged hyperbole about the 2021 vintage may be justified. A second year of extreme drought in California set the table for a record small crop and put the vines into high stress mode. The intelligent plants, struggling in soil devoid of any moisture, responded by setting very few clusters in the Spring. The clusters that made it were miniaturized, doll house, baby clusters. Growers were not pleased. Winemakers were though. As is the case