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Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay

Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay Wine Details
Price: $24.00 per bottle

Description: "Sweet as a wind-lutes" airy strains your gentle muse has learned to sing and California’s boundless plains prolong the soft notes echoing.” So wrote Jack London of this beloved land, and yet a similar verse would seem to describe the beauty of our 2002 Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay. Full of substance and generous citrus and pear flavors, the wine is utterly delicious. It will show its layers and goregous texture echoing throughout. A true song, not of the plains, but of the prestine mountains.

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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