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Chardonnay

Reserve Chardonnay Wine Details
Price: $19.95 per bottle

Description: The 2003 Reserve Chardonnay shows a huge, rich, buttery wine with firm acidity. This wine was 100% barrel fermented in all new French oak barrels. The finish is rich, balanced and mouth filling. The wine is long on the palate and shows the incredible depth of the 2003 vintage. This is a great one!!!

Varietal Definition
Chardonnay:
Chardonnay is by far the most widely planted grape crop in California and dominates California’s cooler, coastal, quality wine regions. The natural varietal ‘taste and smell’ of Chardonnay is surprisingly unfamiliar to many wine drinkers, as its true character is often guised with dominating winemaking signatures. Chardonnay’s rather subdued primary fruit characteristics lean toward the crisp fruitiness of apples, pears and lemon, but the variety’s full body is capable of supporting a host of complementary characteristics, such as oak, butter and vanilla. Regardless of what is the appropriate style for Chardonnay, the varietal continues to dominate vineyard plantings in every corner of the world. Close attention to clonal selection has made this broad geographic and climactic range of Chardonnay viable in thoughtful viticultural hands.


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