Santa Cloud! A box with three Three tea-infused Chardonnays by Lingering Clouds in Ningxia -- Jasmine, Oolong and Longjing -- outside my door this morning.

These are pet-nats--sparkling wines made via the 'ancestral' method that pre-dates Champagne and involves a single fermentation.

(I'm calling them 茶rdonnay. 茶 is the character for tea and spoken as 'cha'. Thus, we get CHArdonnay / 茶rdonnay / 茶多丽.)

I tasted tank samples of all three with winemaker Jianjun 'Johnny' Liu in September and look forward to trying the final product!

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