2016 | Aubert | Chardonnay Sonoma Coast Ritchie Vineyard

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White Wine: 2016 | Aubert | Chardonnay Sonoma Coast Ritchie Vineyard

Yellow hues with a touch of green, definable tones of dried lemon and lime skins make up the aromatic profile. The mouth feel is very rich and the natural acidity gives the wine stability for continued bottle aging. The wine has a slight hazy clarity showing to the commitment to minimal interventional winemaking.

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Producer: Aubert

Ratings: VN | 96

Vintage: 2016

Size: 750ml

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: United States, California

Yellow hues with a touch of green, definable tones of dried lemon and lime skins make up the aromatic profile. The mouth feel is very rich and the natural acidity gives the wine stability for continued bottle aging. The wine has a slight hazy clarity showing to the commitment to minimal interventional winemaking.

Reviews:

• Vinous: The 2016 Chardonnay Ritchie Vineyard is powerful and phenolically intense. Orchard fruit, mint, white flowers and melon are pushed forward. Deep and ample on the palate, with tremendous structure, the 2016 has a lot to offer. Although very much tightly wound today, the Ritchie is one of the most promising wines in the range.

Producer Information

Aubert is a small Chardonnay and Pinot Noir estate that makes wine from single-vineyard sites in Napa Valley and Sonoma. It was founded by Mark and Teresa Aubert in 1999, and today, is considered to be one of California’s cult producers.
The first vintage of Aubert was in 2000 a Chardonnay sourced from the Ritchie Vineyard in Russian River Valley. It quickly received acclaim for its full-blown, hedonistic style and was pivotal for company’s success. Although the vineyard is no longer within the company’s holdings, the Burgundian syle in which the Ritchie Vineyard Chardonnay was produced, remains as the production style throughout the wine portfolio. The chardonnay wines are barrel-fermented and aged in French oak, a majority of which is new.
Aubert’s portfolio has since expanded to an array of single-vineyard Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines, sourced from multiple vineyard sites in Russian River and Rutherford as well as Napa and Sonoma. Each wine in Aubert’s portfolio is named after the parcel of vineyard from which it is sourced and production is extremely limited. The Lauren vineyard is eight acres (3.2 hectares) of Chardonnnay, named after the founder’s daughter and was the first estate vineyard of Aubert. Today, the compnay counts over ten different vineyards within its holdings.