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Kongsgaard Napa Valley Chardonnay The Judge is grown on the Kongsgaard family vineyard in the rocky hills immediately east of the town of Napa. Each year the perfect vines, which bear only a tiny amount of golden fruit, are selected for this blend. The crop does not exceed ½ bottle of wine per vine. Robert Parker called this super-concentrated wine "the essence of Chardonnay - one of the most profound Chardonnays made in California." The wine is fermented in all new, Burgundian oak barrels with the indigenous yeast and bacteria requiring six to twelve months to finish the alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. Resting on the primary lees for fifteen months before the first racking, gravity clarifies the wine. This allows bottling without filtration or fining after nearly two years of barrel age. The wine is named after John's late father who was The Judge in Napa County from 1959 to 1985.
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