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Chardonnay

Chardonnay Wine Details
Price: $20.00 per bottle

Description: This light colored wine, with a hint of bright gold is showing an intense nose of white peach, white Asian pear mixed with heady white flower scent of locust tree. The buttery and vanilla aroma adds to the aromatic complexity, finishing with nutty hazelnut characters. A deep and well-built wine, its fruitiness shows through the grapefruit and white pear aroma that burst in the mouth. Joined by vanilla and buttery aroma, roundness and softness keep on adding to the complexity and remarkable length of this stylish wine.

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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