2009 Idle Cellars Chardonnay

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$19.00
Tasting Notes: 

The nose is filled with passion fruit and pineapple, an essence of the true tropics. A bright acid blended with these fruit flavors shows the mouth a good time. Clear and sleek there are slight hints of butter that smooth out the acidity. Good in the afternoon one should chill before and after drinking.
Chardonnay

Cork dork winemaking notes: Catherine Bonneau Chardonnay was harvested on October 2nd 2009. It was hand cluster sorted and pressed on the same day it was picked. Pressed into a tank, it settled for 2 days and was racked into 9 French oak barrels for fermentation. The barrels were filled three quarters of the way up so the C02 from fermentation would not allow the fermenting wine to spill all over the winery. The barrels were placed deep into the coolest part of the wine cave. We inoculated 3 barrels with Semi-white yeast, 3 barrels with D47 yeast and the remaining 3 fermented with their native yeasts. The native fermentation and the semi-white went very slow, where as the D47 barrels fermented in 5 days. Once the wine was all fermented it was racked into a tank, blended together and placed into barrel. The combination of the 3 yeasts gave the wine a tremendous amount of character. We stirred the lees of the barrels once a week for 8 months and let it settle for the last 2. It was racked twice and placed into a tank for cold stabilization. It was bottled on the 16th of August 2010. 160 cases were produced.

Chardonnay grapes: Catherine Bonneau Vineyard is located in the Los Carneros region of Sonoma County just off of Arnold Road.

Alcohol: 13.9%.

Price: $19.00