Dark glistening red. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and dark berries, baking spices, garrigue and candied flowers, and a smoky mineral flourish appears as the wine opens up. Sappy, sweet and penetrating on the palate, offering juicy black raspb...
The 2016 Chardonnay Ritchie Vineyard, aged in 70% new French oak for 16 months, is a little reticent to begin, offering glimpses at apple tart, ripe bosc pears and honeydew melon notes with suggestions of toasted almonds, musk perfume, lanolin and wet peb...