Community Tasting Notes 33

• jlhkiss Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 16, 2024 - Opened and paired with grilled chicken breast and mixed pasta salad. Pale straw color with a golden hue. Nose brings apricot blossoms, white peaches, tropical fruit basket, honeysuckle, and gun powder. The palate is medium, round, and razor sharp, bringing a steely core of green, yellow, and orange fruit (kiwi, green apple, pineapple, banana, tangerines, mango) followed by a distinctive mix of butterscotch, petrol, crushed stone, seashell, and orange sorbet into a long finish. This has a nice oily viscosity set against a bone-dry finish with an even sweet/dry feel, which puts everything into balance. Drinking well right now and will be best through 2028. Technical score: 92. Enjoyment score: 92.

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• Ben Christiansen wrote:

  January 8, 2024 - Started out kinda nutty, and then oxidative, and then sulfury. And after about 30 minutes really pulled itself became this big harmonious thing.

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• SMHalps wrote: 89 points

  July 28, 2023 - I brought this to a Ridge Winery tasting dinner for my wine group. We liked it, but most of us felt that there are better wines out there for the money. I picked up notes of coffee on the palate, which others tasted as vanilla.

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• ppandian Likes this wine: 90 points

  June 10, 2023 - Minerally, nose of pear and almonds.

• BigBoy_Sonoma Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 28, 2023 - Granny Smith apple, pear, mango, tropical fruit, creme brulee, vanilla, finishes with acidity. A/A-

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type White
• Producer Ridge
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation Estate
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Santa Cruz Mountains
• Appellation Santa Cruz Mountains
• UPC Codes 7070293023782, 744442479009

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• Pending Delivery 6 (0%)
• In Cellars 1,056 (71%)
• Consumed 435 (29%)

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