This full-bodied, full-flavored Chardonnay will delight New World Chardonnay fans. Ridge has created another winner for about $1,500.

This deep golden colored wine has a lovely mature fruit bouquet. The wine has a full, well-developed body with very concentrated flavors of pear, vanilla and butter. At 14.2% alcohol, this is a big wine. Like most of the better Chardonnay wines, this mountain vineyard wine has developed greater depth and complexity as it has aged. Now, more than seven years old, the wine is just approaching its peak. Match this classic California Chardonnay wine with Fettuccine in Truffle Cream Sauce, Dover Sole Meuniere and Sweetbreads with Cream Mustard Sauce. This wine also pairs well with Japanese style Broiled Salmon and Shanghainese Style Braised Fish Tail in Brown Sauce. Serve this wine at 10℃.

In 1959 four Electrical Engineers from the Stamford Research Institute bought a vineyard in Monte Bello Ridge. The four engineers and their wives worked the vineyard on the weekends and sold the grapes to nearby wineries. By the mid 1060s they were making their own wines and experimenting with different varieties from single vineyards. Ridge Winery is now one of the most respected wine producers in the U.S. and a leading advocate of single vineyard wines with distinct personalities.

John H. Isacs

This deep golden colored wine has a lovely mature fruit bouquet. The wine has a full, well-developed body with very concentrated flavors of pear, vanilla and butter. At 14.2% alcohol, this is a big wine. Like most of the better Chardonnay wines, this mountain vineyard wine has developed greater depth and complexity as it has aged. Now, more than seven years old, the wine is just approaching its peak. Match this classic California Chardonnay wine with Fettuccine in Truffle Cream Sauce, Dover Sole Meuniere and Sweetbreads with Cream Mustard Sauce. This wine also pairs well with Japanese style Broiled Salmon and Shanghainese Style Braised Fish Tail in Brown Sauce. Serve this wine at 10℃.

In 1959 four Electrical Engineers from the Stamford Research Institute bought a vineyard in Monte Bello Ridge. The four engineers and their wives worked the vineyard on the weekends and sold the grapes to nearby wineries. By the mid 1060s they were making their own wines and experimenting with different varieties from single vineyards. Ridge Winery is now one of the most respected wine producers in the U.S. and a leading advocate of single vineyard wines with distinct personalities.

John H. Isacs