The skin-contact riff on Maître de Chai's Ellison Sauvignon Blanc, drawn from the same 1969-planted Sonoma Mountain vines. A bit of time on the skins — plus a touch of botrytis in 2023 — pushes the wine into deeper, more aromatic territory: rose petal, orange peel, dried flowers, tangerine oil, nutmeg. Whole-cluster pressed, native-yeast fermented in neutral oak. Not a hard-edged orange wine but a textural, perfumed white with extra grip and dimension. For drinkers who love Sauv Blanc but want something less obvious — and for fans of skin-contact wines who appreciate restraint.