2019 Chardonnay Ridge Storm Wines Hemel en Aarde Valley

2019 is the first vintage for the Ridge Chardonnay, which is planted on an eastern slope at 300m elevation in the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge. Leaner in style next to the Vrede, which is all about buoyant, complex fruit, Ridge by comparison speaks to restraint, length and minerality. Here, we have a wine of crisp citrussy acidity, supported by 30% new French oak. AN elegant wine with notes of pink grapefruit and pink pepper emerge with air and accent what is a lovely salty, linear, and focused Chardonnay.