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Wine Details
Price:
$24.00 per bottle
Description:
Our first release of Chardonnay was 1990. Eleven years later, we are as proud as ever of our classic Burgundian Meursault style. The wine is elegant and yet full-bodied on the palate. The color is full of bright sunshine and golden straw.
Hand picked in the beginning of September, 2.28 tons were brought into the cellar in small "champagne" baskets. The vines rest adjacent to Conn Creek in a cooler zone to allow for even ripening.
The grapes were whole-cluster pressed and fermented in Burgundian barrels (25% new oak), with indigenous yeasts without malolactic fermentation. The wine was aged "sur lies" in the same barrels before bottling in May of 2002.
As with our previous vintages of Seavey Chardonnay, in its youth the wine displays a crisp fresh fruit character that meanders into soft ripe fruity elegance with age.
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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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