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Wine Details
Price:
$9.99 per bottle
Description:
Loaded with melon and peach flavors, the rounded fruit characteristics typical of Columbia Valley grapes are integrated beautifully into this rich Chardonnay. Clean and focused layers of fruit are held in place by firm acids. The emphasis in this wine is its complex structure of tropical fruit blending smoothly with the cedar essences imparted by French oak barrels. This Chardonnay has enough body to stand up to, and enhance, flavorful foods.
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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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