2008 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

2019 - 2022

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The 2016 Chardonnays are a highlight in this set of new releases from David Ramey. As always, Ramey also presented a few older vintages, which show just how well the wines can age. Ramey picks a bit earlier these days, which gives his wines an extra kick of freshness that works beautifully to complement the intensity of the flavors he coaxes from a number of top sites

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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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"Five to seven years old is the sweet spot for my chardonnays but they plateau for a while after that," David Ramey told me in March. To make the point we tasted bottles of his 2001 Russian River Valley and Hudson bottlings, both of which were still eneregtic and mineral-driven, with serious heft. "Chardonnay is the red wine of whites if it's made right," he said. "There's a texture that it can achieve that's sometimes more serious than pinot noir, and it can handle the richest foods." We talked about the ongoing debate over alcohol levels and what he called "the narrow obsession with that particular number. Why not talk about pH instead?" he asked. "That's even more important for the impression the wine gives when you drink it. Alcohol has always been the bogeyman in the U.S. and this is just another manifestation of that obsession."