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Wine Details
Price:
$45.00 per bottle
Description:
The nose is elegant, full and ripe with white fig, baked apple and pear focused by a lime and limestone core. The oak is well integrated without the overt characteristics of butter, vanilla, raw wood, or char common to California Chardonnay. A slight hint of hazelnut, brioche, grapefruit and kumquat develop in the nose and carry through on the palate as the wine opens. The wine is well structured with vivacity and mouth watering acidity. Almond, lime, and stone fruit linger in your mouth. The finish is very long.
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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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