Maitre de Chai Sparkling Solera Michael Mara Vineyard MV NO20230719 24 percent wheat and 12

24 percent wheat and 12 percent malted barley

From the producer: The first extra-aged Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey to join Elijah Craig’s award-winning family of Bourbons

with notes of chocolate and tobacco

It becomes roasted and bittersweet and slightly smoky with an undercurrent of grassiness at the midpalate

The cult of Pierre Peters has gotten so strong that even their beautiful non-vintage "Cuvée de Réserve" is now subject to allocations

Maitre de Chai Sparkling Solera Michael Mara Vineyard MV NO20230719 24 percent wheat and 12From the producer: The Michael Mara Vineyard planted in 2006 by Steve & Jill Klein Matthiasson is a beautiful Chardonnay site just west of the town of Sonoma. This Traditional Method Sparkling Solera is a reserve blend of Chardonnay with components dating back to 2012 our first vintage. The base wine was fermented with its native yeasts and after the second fermentation, was bottle aged for 24 months. Hand disgorged in July 2021. 1,260 bottles