2019 Ramey Chardonnay Rochioli Vineyard Russian River Valley
Pale yellow. None of the reduction or crystals that plagued our last bottle of this. Also, virtually none of the things I just read about in other CT reviews: it's not "powerful" or "tropical", there are no apricots and it's not overtly "ripe". It's full of mellow white and yellow fruits and the texture is elegant and creamy. I loved it.
But interesting to have a bottle that's reductive and one not, from the same case. Hasn't happened to me before in sets of same bottles--either they're all that way, or they're not. And of course the army of crystals in that other bottle, even in the first pour!, was something I haven't seen before either (could that have been the last one bottled from a barrel?