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Melville Chardonnay Estate Santa Rita Hills 2006

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2006 Vintage

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Chardonnay is America's most popular grape and with good reason. Made in styles that range from steely, mineral laced wines with crisp green apple fruit to wines that are buttery, rich, and laden with tropical fruits, there is a Chardonnay that will appeal to every palate. Chardonnay is most closely associated with France's Burgundy region and California's Northern valleys though it has proven successful around the globe.

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Notes on the Melville Estate Santa Rita Hills Chardonnay 2006 : WINEMAKER NOTES: With an electric green-gold hue this wine has an elusive and fresh aromatic array of saline, limes, lemon drops, lemon-lime margarita, green apple skin, white currants and white apricots. Even more alluring are the other aspects of chalk, saltwater taffy, angel food cake, gingerbread, seashell, Italian parsley and orange-flower blossom. In the mouth, the wine is ample and fleshy yet remains very chiseled, delineated and crisp.Denise JohnsonMELVILLE ESTATE SANTA RITA HILLS CHARDONNAY 2006

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Source: Zachy's


"Light yellow. Fresh, energetic nose offers brisk green apple and quince scents complicated by anise and honeysuckle. Gains weight on the palate, picking up suave peach and kiwi flavors but maintaining energy and focus. Finishes chewy and quite long. This got just 5% new French oak, and, according to Greg Brewer, this might be the last year that any new wood is used....91" IWC 11/07


 

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