Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Château Léoville-Las Cases There is a salty minerality

There is a salty minerality throughout and the finish lingers for 30 seconds plus

but it remains fresh at the end

and a touch of salinity

leather and baking spice

Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Château Léoville-Las Cases There is a salty mineralityThe 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.