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Wine Details
Price:
$35.00 per bottle
Description:
"Imagine a wine with aromas of fresh apples, pears, and yeasty bread dough. Imagine a wine with rich, luscious flavors of baked apples spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, made lively by good natural acidity. Imagine that it is the 2005 Kunde Estate Reserve Chardonnay - wait! No imagination required! That wine is the 2005 Kunde Reserve. Now imagine it with fettucine in cream sauce studded with bay shrimp. Yummy!"
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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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