Ramey Wine Cellars Ramey Woolsey Road Vineyard Chardonnay 2022 750ml

The 2022 Chardonnay Woolsey Road Vineyard is a bright, youthful yellow/green-tinged color and offers a lot of transparency in its character in this vintage. It reveals pure notes of fresh peach, floral perfume, preserved citrus, well-detailed spices, and smoky stones. The palate is fresh and focused and has a lot of tension, and it’s long on the palate, with fantastic intensity and structure. This site produces tiny little berries, which lends a pleasing tannic-like structure, along with great acidity and depth. This wine is built for the long haul and will be worth stashing away for several years. Drink 2027-2040.

The 2022 Chardonnay Woolsey Road Vineyard comes from Wente selection vines planted in 2007 by the Martinelli family. The grapes were harvested before the Labor Day heat wave on August 17, and the wine was barrel-fermented. It underwent full malolactic conversion and was matured for 20 months in 20% new French oak barrels. It has slowly unfolding scents of honey, orange blossom, crème brûlée and matchstick. The palate is taut and energetic, with focused acidity and slowly opening stone fruit flavors. As it warms in the glass, it reveals exuberant tropical and honey tones, and it has a tremendously long finish driven by its luxurious, mouth-coating texture. It will benefit from several years in the cellar.

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