Lieu Dit Chenin Blanc 2023 (Santa Ynez Valley, California) - [WA 91]

About the winery:Lieu Dit is a partnership of longtime friends Eric Railsback and Justin Willett. The two met in Santa Barbara while Eric was finishing college and Justin was just beginning his career in winemaking. They were among a small group of young winemakers and restaurateurs in Santa Barbara unified by a common interest in wine and all its mysteries.After countless bottles shared together and many trips to France, Railsback and Willett decided to found Lieu Dit in 2011 and focus it solely in the varieties indigenous to the Loire Valley, now grown in Santa Barbara County. The varied micro-climates and marine based soils of Santa Barbara County are ideally suited to this set of grapes. About the wine:Chenin Blanc is the best kept secret in the world of wine. Richer than Sauvignon Blanc but impossibly light on its feet, Chenin Blanc is probably your new favorite wine… you just don’t know it yet. Let us introduce you to the quiet luxury of Chenin Blanc: at once decadent and bracing