Far Niente Chardonnay 2000

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Winery:

Far Niente Winery

Varietal:

Chardonnay

Region:

USA > California > Napa

Type:

White Wine

Color:

Drink Dates:

Drink Now - 2012

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User Tags:  fruit, pome, citrus, intense, rich, resinous, oak, complex, color descriptors, aromatic 

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What to Expect

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.

Winemakers Notes

The 2000 growing season was moderate overall, with a few heat spikes in the spring that benefitted flowering and set in our Chardonnay vineyards. Summer came on with
nice, even temperatures creating warm days and cool nights. Harvest started about one week early, toward the very end of August, and continued into early October, with the last vineyards ripening just before the weather turned unseasonably cold. The crop was back up to normal levels after the small harvest of 1999. The hand harvested grapes were brought to the winery in small bins and then sorted by hand to assure the finest read more...quality. The fermentation began in temperature controlled
stainless steel tanks, and was then racked into a high percentage of new French Burgundy Oak Barrels to complete the fermentation in our caves and old stone cellar.
The wine was aged on its yeast lees for additional depth, complexity and texture. After approximately nine months of barrel aging, each wine was evaluated. Only those
barrels that displayed both the quality and the "Far Niente style" were included in theblend which was lightly fined prior to bottling in the summer of 2000.
The 2000 Chardonnay is a classically structured wine that is both rich and velvety on the palate while displaying the typical intensity of fruit and spicy oak aromas that have
become synonymous with Far Niente Chardonnay. The rich flavors of melon, fig and oak are intertwined with mineral and yeast notes will become increasingly full and
complex with time. The 2000 Far Niente Chardonnay has excellent potential to ageten or more years.    (hide)

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