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Wine Details
Price:
$21.99 per bottle
Description:
For much of his five-decade wine career Jed Steele has been famed for his way with Chardonnay, and Santa Barbara County's Bien Nacido Vineyard gives him the perfect fruit to show what he can do with the grape. The 2000 vintage has yielded a beautifully balanced wine - not too oaky, not too full, with lots of tropical fruit flavors and the right acidity to keep its rich character fresh and lively.
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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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