2005 Chardonnay Ritchie Vineyard

Wine Details
Producer

Ramey

Place of Origin

United States

Russian River Valley

Sonoma

Color

White

Grape/Blend

Chardonnay

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2017 - 2023

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David Ramey, one of California’s proven masters of Chardonnay, has compiled an admirable track record for making rich, complex wines with uncanny staying power, as a recent tasting of his Chardonnays from the Hyde and Ritchie vineyards made clear.

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It's hard to know where to start with this lineup, as David Ramey does so many things so well. The 2012 Chardonnays are beautiful, expressive and ready to go. This year sees the addition of a new Chardonnay, from Woolsey Road, a site farmed by Martinelli that replaces the Hudson in the lineup. Ramey also seems to have gotten the best of the 2012 and 2013 vintages with his Cabernet Sauvignons and Cabernet-based reds. The 2012s will drink well early, yet have the stuffing to age, while the 2013 are prototypical vins de garde, with all of the dark fruit and structure of this great vintage. Both the Chardonnays and Cabernets reflect a very Francophile sensibility. The Syrahs are a bit different, as they are quite explosive and intense, much like the Cabernets. It's pretty hard to go wrong with anything in this superb range. Best of all, it looks like Ramey's children will soon be joining the family business, which means the future is in good hands.

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Two thousand five will be the last vintage for David Ramey's Jericho Canyon cabernet sauvignon, as the owners have decided to build a winery of their own and keep all of their fruit. (Ramey had worked with this vineyard since the 1998 vintage, when he was the winemaker for Rudd Estate.) This bottling will be replaced by an as-yet-unnamed proprietary cabernet starting with the 2006 vintage. Ramey does a twice-daily pumpover of his red wines for "maximum color and flavor extraction," and does a total cuvaison of about 21 days, but handles his white wines more gently-he calls it "Champagne-style"-for greater finesse. He also believes that gentle handling allows his chardonnays to develop greater complexity and not simply be fruit bombs. To emphasize his point about the value of holding his chardonnays, Ramey opened a head-spinning 2002 Hyde that offered luscious, smoky citrus and melon flavors and still-youthful tang and grip.