Romance is Sandhi’s tête de cuvée, and a vintage like 2023 shows why with volume, finesse, intensity, texture and purity of fruit converging in a glass of wine. If Chardonnay, prized for its regal structure, could be both dense and light as a feather, this is that. If Chardonnay, prized for its inherent neutral character, could be aromatic — as intoxicatingly floral and even herbal as its label — this is that. This is the profile of Chardonnay that compelled us to plant it just below Domaine de la Côte in 2015. This is why we have become only more sanguine about the world’s greatest white grape in California’s finest winegrowing region, the far western Sta. Rita Hills.