2023 | Ridge Estate Chardonnay | Santa Cruz Mountains Chappellet Winery Ripe honeyed lemon

Ripe honeyed lemon

saline and tensioned finish

It has notes of preserved lemons

with well-balanced acidity

2023 | Ridge Estate Chardonnay | Santa Cruz Mountains Chappellet Winery Ripe honeyed lemonThe 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.