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Monday, April 1, 2019 - Tasted at The Wine Society's dinner, Berkshire, UK, with Ridge winemaker Eric Baugher introducing the wines. This was served alongside the 2015 vintage to accompany salmon blini starter. It had been flown in from the winery especially for the dinner. It was a fantastic opportunity to taste a Ridge chardonnay at 16 years after the vintage. The colour obviously showed age, being light gold/rusty. The first surprise was that the nose had sweetness, almost a feel of botrytis, with peaches and mandarins. However, the palate was bone dry! I'm not sure I've previously experienced something like that in an old chardonnay. The palate showed less fruit, but there was orange blossom and it was very complex. It was Eric's view that all of his chardonnays keep well for this length of time, regardless of the vintage. For me, this was an incredibly interesting wine to taste. Certainly the most interesting of the whites we tasted.

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