Ram's Gate Ram's Gate Chardonnay Estate, USA, California, Napa / Sonoma, Carneros

These are fully mature, drink up. Still pleasant and typical California chardonnay with lots of fruit and a healthy oak treatment.

Much more advanced than a bottle opened 8 months ago. This is a combination of quite mature chardonnay and almost painful acid. Still drinkable but I have to assume that this is beyond the drinking window and not what the winemaker intended.

This is a medium yellow gold colored wine with a little bit of its age showing. The palate consists of elements of lemon, apple, pineapple with some butterscotch likely coming from the nicely used oak. This is a medium bodied wine with crisp acidity. The consistency is firm with a seamless structure. Overall, this is a good wine that's held up well after seven years. It was a good deal at $28 from WTSO.

Bottle presumably consumed at a different time and not notated.

Lots of lemon right off the bat, with solid oak underpinnings. Full bodied, with a butterscotch component, but not overly so. Went well with a lemon garlic and italian herb salmon.

This tasted like delicious lemonade, almost painfully acidic with enough sweetness to carry the palate through. Not a ton of complexity but an interesting wine and style.

Nose of French oak, pear, pineapple. Medium weight. Well integrated acidity on the long finish with structure coming again from the oak, but not over the top. On the whole, delivers a restrained version of the classic Napa style chard based on moderately toasted French oak rather than gobs of overtoasted American oak.

Had with giant scallops and rice. For the first hour, fine but nothing great. Then, all of a sudden, zang: citrus, viz. lemon, great mouthfeel, and a 60 second aftertaste that rolled in waves. Limited oak, plenty of acidity.