Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Chardonnay 2023 ReasonableCellar2025 the better to allow a

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who became the first female winemaker on Forbes' Femmes 40 list in 2024

Lucia Santa Lucia Highlands Estate Chardonnay 2023 ReasonableCellar2025 the better to allow aLucia is the Pisoni family's brand, run by Mark Pisoni from the same legendary Santa Lucia Highlands vineyards that put the region on the world map. The Estate Cuvee Chardonnay pulls from Pisoni and Soberanes two of the most sought after sites in the SLH and gets the family's signature treatment: hand picked, native yeast, French oak. The 2023 vintage was a slow, late one in the Highlands, and the wine shows it: round, rich, and exuberant, with golden