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Wine Details
Price:
$14.00 per bottle
Description:
This vintage was optimum for the ripening of this variety with sustained warmth and dry conditions until harvest in late October. Produced from a half-acre block of 20-year old vines, the wine has excellent depth and body balanced by crisp acidity. Fermentation was in oak barrels with 20% new cooperage. The wine was barrel aged for a total of 11 months and bottled after secondary fermentation.
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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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