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Wine Details
Price:
$35.00 per bottle
Description:
This Burgundian style Chardonnay comes from the terraced area of our School House Vineyard. The Chardonnay, like our Pinot Noir and Mescolanza is dry-farmed (not irrigated). The vines were propagated from the Wente "small berry clone" which came to us originally from Stony Hill Vineyard.
This 2004 Chardonnay is an excellent example of our elegant, clean wine and is unlike most California Chardonnays. The press was applied immediately following harvest, and the resulting 'must' was carried to seasoned French oak barrels to ferment and age for about 14 months. When the wine was 'ready' it was hand-bottled. It is not filtered. Two barrels were produced.
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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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