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Wine Details
Price:
$35.00 per bottle
Description:
Why can’t this wine behave? Watch it dance about in your glass, a pure golden luminescence glowing from its core. Crème Brulée & Curaçao, & sweet-bitter orange peel only found in those singular marmalades from the South Caribbean. Caramel cream, pineapple & ripe mango with aromatic jasmine blossoms - an extraordinary lady. Now roll her on your tongue: voluptuous. The secret? Chardonnay grapes fully exposed to the sun from the time of birth at flowering have golden skins redolent of the scents & flavors of a pagan goddess. To capture the grape’s full essence & golden hue, this wine was totally fermented on its skin just like a classic red wine. All the books insist one cannot, must not, do this with white wine. The books also advise against more than a few short months of barrel aging for whites. Perversely, this wine spent three splendid years in the barrel, with 30 months of that time sur lie. . . perhaps the books were written by Philistines? And being born of the sun, this Chardonnay does not enjoy the cold, so please don’t over chill her! Put her on ice & she will shiver while pulling on frumpy covers, hiding her finest attributes. Like a perfect lady from Savannah, or from the port city Bahia, she is at her best on the veranda, at that delicious evening temperature just before you think that she might like a shawl.
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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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