Grape varieties characteristics - Chardonnay
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Style of inexpensive Californian Chardonnay
- Soft, easy-drinking style
- medium acidity
- sometimes slight residual sugar
- often unoaked or made with oak alternatives
Style of premium California Chardonnay
- Medium(+) to full body
- pronounced flavours of peach and pineapple
- secondary flavours from malo and new oak
- more recently:
- fresher, leaner style
- less-ripe fruit characteristics (citrus fruits)
- less overt new oak
- some lees contact to give stuck match aromas from volatile sulfur compounds
Chardonnay in Russian River Valley, California
- Medium/medium(+) body, medium(+) acidity with ripe peach and pineapple flavours and often creamy and spicy flavours from malolactic conversion and oak maturation.
- good-ouststanding
- mid-priced / super premium
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