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Wine Details
Price:
$20.00 per bottle
Description:
From The Connoisseur's Guide to California Wine 89, Beauregard Trout Gulch Vineyard 2003. If its ripeness is fairly apparent, so is its very likeable, sweet-apple fruit, and this rounded, buttery, oak-seasoned wine comes up long on richness and immediate appeal. It is fairly fat in feel and shows some finishing heat as proof of its ripeness, but it will make good drinking in the very near term with rich, roasted chicken entrees.
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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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