Ridge Monte Bello Chardonnay 2020

Ridge Monte Bello Chardonnay 2020

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  • Vinous rating 88
Ridge Monte Bello Chardonnay 2020
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HED93132

75 cl

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£135.00
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Ridge’s Monte Bello Chardonnay, often regarded as California`s most prestigious white wine, showcases a refined structure that competes with the finest Burgundy Grand Crus. Exhibiting freshness and a light, approachable character, it offers notes of honey and floral nuances. With a lighter body, this wine is crafted entirely from whole clusters, experiencing prolonged contact with the lees. Purposeful oxidation is employed during batonnage, skilfully manoeuvring the lees, particularly during the malolactic fermentation.
88 Vinous
The 2020 Chardonnay Monte Bello is an attractive, small-scaled wine. Naturally, the 2020 doesn't have the depth or complexity of the best years, but it is reasonably well balanced for the vintage. There is some aggressiveness in the texture, but that is the year. I would prefer to drink this on the young side, before those angular contours become more prominent. Lemon peel, white flowers, chalk and white pepper lend brightness. I just wish this had more depth of fruit. Antonio Galloni7th November 2023

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Named after the historic vineyard area of Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains has been a byword for fine Californian wine since the early 1960s. Ridge shot to fame in the fabled 1976 Judgement of Paris. It was at this groundbreaking blind tasting that the 1971 Ridge Monte Bello was pitted against some of the most revered First Growths of Bordeaux. It placed fifth. (NB: in a re-enactment of the same tasting held in 2006, Monte Bello 1971 placed first.)

Under legendary winemaker Paul Draper, Ridge Vineyards became renowned for the exceptional quality of its single-vineyard wines. Though Draper has now retired, the estate continues to produce terroir-focused wines with the same commitment to organic farming and traditional winemaking techniques. From the fine Bordeaux blends and Chardonnays of Monte Bello to the Zinfandels of Lytton Springs and Geyserville in Sonoma, and all points in between, Ridge Vineyards remains one of the most celebrated names in California wine.

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