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Chardonnay VQA

Chardonnay VQA Wine Details
Price: $22.00 per bottle

Description: Well-balanced palate offers additional flavours of peach and grapefruit with the suggestion of minerality. Smooth and creamy in the middle with a toasty acid-balanced long finish. This wine is a blend of 36% barrel fermented and 64% stainless steel fermented to provide a lighter oaked flavour. Enjoy with any of your favourite meals, especially pork and grilled fish. Available at the Winery and at fine restaurants.

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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