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Chardonnay, Russian River Valley

 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley Wine Details
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Description: Produced from our Russian River Terrace Vineyard. This white northern Burgundy style wine is rich with tropical fruit, flavors of pineapple, apple, pear, and fig and has huge perfumed bouquet of honeysuckle and orchid. Unlike barrel fermented Chard with malolactic fermentation this wine was cold fermented in stainless and the malic acid preserved for a crisp, clean mid-palate finish without the buttery mouthfeel from ML. Aged 4 months in neutral French oak such that oak extracts would not overpower the fruitfulness of the wine. Serve with fancy cheese, seafood, and poultry. Close your eyes, sip this wine, and dream you are in Chablis France.

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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