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Roger Rose Chardonnay

Roger Rose Chardonnay Wine Details
Price: $26.00 per bottle

Description: Roger and Rose Marie Hernandez planted their eight-acre Arroyo Seco estate vineyard in 1988 to six French clones of Chardonnay that originated at the University of Beaune's Dijon Research Station.The clones 77 and 809 in particular exhibit exotic aromatics. However, the precise source of RogerRose's unique lychee fruit and honeysuckle-like nose that is anyone's guess — perhaps it is due to the influence of the Dijon clones, or to Roger's farming practices that reduce cluster and berry size to half the California norm, or to the sandy, rocky soil around Arroyo Seco Road.




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