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Wine Details
Price:
$24.95 per bottle
Description:
This Chardonnay has been crafted in the classic French tradition. The wine is pale straw in colour with a complex bouquet heavy with tropical fruit flavours of melon, passion fruit and pineapple mingled with subtle hints of peach and apple along with oaky notes of vanilla and toast. The palate exhibits forward tropical fruit flavours with a creamy, buttery-oak finish adding to the wines complexity. This Chardonnay has an excellent balance of buttery oak notes balanced with cleansing acidity. Great to dink now but will continue to age for 5-10 years.
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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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