2020 Ridge Chardonnay Estate

Community Tasting Notes (33) Avg Score: 90.6 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View jlhkiss's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/16/2024 - jlhkiss Likes this wine: 92 Points

  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.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Ben Christiansen's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/8/2024 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

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

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View SMHalps's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/28/2023 - SMHalps wrote: 89 Points

  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.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • View ppandian's profile
  • Report Issue

  6/10/2023 - ppandian Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Minerally, nose of pear and almonds.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View BigBoy_Sonoma's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/28/2023 - BigBoy_Sonoma Likes this wine: 93 Points

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

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 33 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.