Tropical fruit aromas mingle with melon and vanilla. It has a medium weight on the palate with the tropical flavors of passion fruit and pineapple, citrus flavors of mandarin orange and lime, and soft oak. Grapes for this wine were picked at 25 Brix with a total acid of 0.88 g/100ml & a PH of 3.22. The grapes were gently whole-cluster pressed, cold settled, inoculated with yeast, and racked to barrels for fermentation. Barrels used were 35% new French oak from Francois Freres and 65% of used barrels from the previous vintage. After completion of fermentation the wine was inoculated with a malo-lactic culture, stirred weekly, and sur-lees aged 10 months. It was bottled without fining or filtration. 670 cases produced.
VINTAGE
- 2008
VARIETAL
- 100% Chardonnay
IMPORTER
- Vintage Imports
FARMING TECHNIQUE
- Traditional
AVAILABILITY
- Colorado
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
