Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Château Léoville-Las Cases leather and baking spice

leather and baking spice

and a touch of salinity

and fruit comes from the estate's highest vineyards

dense and unfiltered

a makeover that also comes with a refreshed style where black and forest fruits shine in the glasses together with an accolade of oak well integrated into the wine

Ridge Estate Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains 2023 Château Léoville-Las Cases leather and baking spiceThe 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.