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Ridge Monte Bello Chardonnay 2006

Ridge Vineyards, Santa Cruz, United States

Ridge Vineyards
Santa Cruz United States
  • 93
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  • Country ranking ?

    416

  • Producer ranking ?

    27

  • Decanting time

    2h

  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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Whole-cluster pressed. Juice aerated and racked to barrel for natural primary and secondary fermentations. Four of the 10 Monte Bello Vineyard Chardonnay parcels or fractions thereof. Aged 17 months in 100% air-dried American oak barrels (26% new, 40% one and two years, 34% three, four and five years old). 
Creamy, a little dusty, and a light floral note. Ripe, not-quite-tropical fruit. Then more nutty but there's an additional ethereal aroma too – fragrant even with the oak overlay. Finely spiced, broad and rich and powerful but not heavy. Some coconut. Fine freshness seems to add to its massive presence in the mouth. Ripe fruit flavours, so rich but not fat because there's a seam of freshness and a savoury, almost sour minerality. Very long. More coconut with time in glass and finishes with sweetness of ripe fruit.  (JH) 

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Origin

Cupertino, Santa Cruz

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