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Wine Details
Price:
$60.00 per bottle
Description:
The 2003 vintage exhibits classic fruit and mineral aromas, a rich mid-palate and an extremely lengthy finish, typical characteristics produced by this old chardonnay vineyard. This wine also shows more of the musqué aromas often seen in old Wente selections. The harvest occurred September 17th and 18th. Once harvested, the grapes were gently whole-cluster pressed, and the juice was then gravity-fed to French oak barrels in Rudd’s underground caves. Native yeasts were allowed to induce a leisurely primary fermentation, then native bacteria completed the malolactic fermentation. Weekly stirring of the lees occurred until the secondary fermentation was complete in late spring, and then the wine was stirred monthly for the remainder of time in barrel. After 17 months in barrel, the wine was racked to tank, settled, and minimally fined before being bottled unfiltered in May 2005.
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