2021 Chenin Blanc

An extremely finicky fellow filled with flavors of quince, rosewater, lanolin and smell of a blown-out candle. Some of the best is grown along the Loire River in France, but Leelanau may become equally important. If Riesling is vigorous and energetic, Chenin is more stately, and this wine can carry you away. Everything about it is allusive and a real twinkle maker. Park yourself in a beach chair by the shore and forget about the world as BB King and Eric Clapton begin to play.

Fermented in a new puncheon French barrel and taken about halfway through malolactic fermentation. Six months aged in barrel.