Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Fruit Wine This was followed up by

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

Sangiovese from the acclaimed Montosoli-adjacent Pertimali estate

This is undoubtedly the best wine from the Martin Woods 2022 vintage

Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Fruit Wine This was followed up byThe 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.