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Wine Details
Price:
$14.00 per bottle
Description:
Our 2003 Estate Chardonnay exhibits bright pear and tropical fruit flavors combined with a rich creamy mouth feel. The wine was fermented and aged in American and French oak barrels for six months prior to blending. During aging we gently stirred the wine on its lees or yeast-sediment, known as sur-lie aging. This gives the chardonnay a rich and complex flavor. All of the grapes were grown on our Estate Vineyard located on the original Stevenot Ranch planted in 1978.
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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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