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Wine Details
Price:
$16.00 per bottle
Description:
This outstanding Chardonnay, from the justly famous Ehlers Lane Vineyard, is the perfect summer sipping wine! It is graced with aromas of honey, green apple and lemon zest. The wine on the palate echoes the bouquet with a zippy and refreshingly high acidity and excellent balance. It shows rich flavor and complexity with tones of vanilla, grapefruit and honeydew melon. Typical of Beaucanon Chardonnay, the wine’s rich layers are graced with subdued touches of oak and toast.
Our Chardonnay is made to have a moderate weight (or mouth feel) while maintaining high flavor concentration. We strive to stand apart from the crowd of cloying or heavy chardonnay products. We accomplish this through our barrel aging program of French and American oak and by allowing the wines to age on the lees. These characteristics create a wonderful companion to a wide variety of foods such as stuffed chicken, stir-frys, crisp summer salads and most seafood offerings.
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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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