Ridge, Estate Chardonnay, 2019
From the Monte Bello ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains comes Ridge's Estate Chardonnay, the white companion to the Cabernet that famously placed in the red-wine flight at the 1976 Judgment of Paris (and went on to top the same field in the 30th-anniversary re-tasting). Paul Draper set the template; John Olney carries it forward today. The 2019 vintage delivered concentration with balance, and this wine shows it: think pale gold, citrus and green apple aromatics, salinity and crushed-stone minerality, with a creamy mid-palate from extended lees contact. Less buttery California Chardonnay, more old-vine mountain restraint. Drinking beautifully now, with another five-plus years of upside in the cellar.
Ridge, Estate Chardonnay, 2019
From the Monte Bello ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains comes Ridge's Estate Chardonnay, the white companion to the Cabernet that famously placed in the red-wine flight at the 1976 Judgment of Paris (and went on to top the same field in the 30th-anniversary re-tasting). Paul Draper set the template; John Olney carries it forward today. The 2019 vintage delivered concentration with balance, and this wine shows it: think pale gold, citrus and green apple aromatics, salinity and crushed-stone minerality, with a creamy mid-palate from extended lees contact. Less buttery California Chardonnay, more old-vine mountain restraint. Drinking beautifully now, with another five-plus years of upside in the cellar.
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From the Monte Bello ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains comes Ridge's Estate Chardonnay, the white companion to the Cabernet that famously placed in the red-wine flight at the 1976 Judgment of Paris (and went on to top the same field in the 30th-anniversary re-tasting). Paul Draper set the template; John Olney carries it forward today. The 2019 vintage delivered concentration with balance, and this wine shows it: think pale gold, citrus and green apple aromatics, salinity and crushed-stone minerality, with a creamy mid-palate from extended lees contact. Less buttery California Chardonnay, more old-vine mountain restraint. Drinking beautifully now, with another five-plus years of upside in the cellar.
