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Kistler Pinot Noir Hirsch Vineyard(1997)

Kistler Chardonnay is made using traditional French techniques, with the winemaker himself performing the cellar work on the wines. Kistler Chardonnay has a distinct character. It is completely barrel-fermented using indigenous and cultured yeasts, is aged in 50% new French oak barrels unracked and in contact with all its fermentation lees, has undergone a malolactic fermentation, receives minimal handling and processing, and is bottled unfiltered and, generally, unfined after 11-18 months of barrel age.

Our low-yielding (pruned and thinned to yield about two tons per read more...
Robert Parker
The Wine Advocate
Issue 120
90-93
September 2007
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Wine Advocate # 120
Dec-98
(90-93)
April 2008
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