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Wine Details
Price:
$13.99 per bottle
Description:
The blending of fruit from two wonderful Columbia Valley vineyards creates a complex Chardonnay with layers of rich apple and melon flavors. These ripe flavors are balanced by firm acids creating a forward wine with bright, crisp intensity. Completing the flavor profile are the rich buttery effects of malolactic fermentation and the vanilla characteristics imparted by the small French oak barrels used during fermentation and aging. This wine is the perfect foil for rich cream sauces, crab cakes or broiled Northwest seafood.
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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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