Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Château Léoville-Las Cases exuding zesty acidity and polished

exuding zesty acidity and polished mousse

dense and unfiltered

but it remains fresh at the end

and a touch of salinity

Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Château Léoville-Las Cases exuding zesty acidity and polishedThe 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.