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Kalyra Chardonnay -

Kalyra Chardonnay - Barrel Select Wine Details
Price: $21.00 per bottle

Description: The Bien Nacido Vineyards in the Santa Maria Valley are perhaps one of the most famous Chardonnay producing vines in California . Mike Brown has hand selected six of the best barrels from the 2003 vintage and carefully aged the wine. The wine was fermented and aged in French oak barrels and left on the lees for around 16 months. The wine then underwent partial malolactic fermentation then aged for a further four months before being racked off unfiltered and bottled

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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