Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Fruit Wine Napa Valley — the Oakville

Napa Valley — the Oakville Bench

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

Very tight and structured

95 pts Decanter

The finish is extremely long and impressive

Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Fruit Wine Napa Valley — the OakvilleThe 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.