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Wine Details
Price:
$35.00 per bottle
Description:
Super-ripe apples, vanilla and honey in the nose. Buttered toast, minerals and echoes of yeasty honeyed apples on the palate. Nicely framed by lively acidity and concentrated fruit flavors. This is potentially our best ever effort with this varietal. The obvious table companions are lobster, crab, fresh tuna, shark and salmon. And, yes, add the cream sauce, tarragon, thyme or a hint of vine-ripe tomato. Bottled unfiltered and unfined, this wine may throw a fine sediment in the bottle. Our reserve level Chardonnay - barrel fermented with extensive time in wood - exemplifies a fuller, richer style, designed for longer aging. This wine is powerful, with rich body and texture, good definition and deep, multi-layered flavors.
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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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