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California Chardonnay Revisited: Purity vs Process

California Chardonnay Revisited: Purity vs Process

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Fredric Koeppel
Apr 23, 2009
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In the "Wine of the Week" post on March 24, for the Morgan "Highland" Chardonnay 2007, Santa Rita Highlands, I mentioned that I sometimes face the prospect of uncorking a bottle of chardonnay from California with trepidation because I fear finding "an over-oaked, stridently spicy, tropical fruit cocktail laced with meringue and caramel. Yuck!"

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