Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Fruit Wine The aromas of small wild

The aromas of small wild red fruits are enhanced with spicy and lardy aromas

95 pts Decanter

As it develops

This was followed up by a temperate summer that was long and unhurried and at times worryingly slow and cool

Hand harvesting and aging in Slavonian casks lends to the enticing aroma with its tobacco nose highlighted with hints of cedar

Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Fruit Wine The aromas of small wildThe 2023 Chardonnay Estate is a unicorn wine, with the acids naturally occurring with ease in this cool, long, extended growing season that the wine world is rightfully excited about, producing wines of tremendous elegance and balance, sourced entirely from Monte Bello Estate. The minerality is off the charts, exuberantly defining the wine after a barrel fermentation of nine months on the lees in 85% American and 15% French oak, 15% of it new.