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Friday Wine Sips

Friday Wine Sips

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Fredric Koeppel
Jan 20, 2012
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A dozen chardonnays from California, some of which exhibit the too-common stylistic pitfall of heavy reliance on French oak barrels to shape a wine and malolactic fermentation to give it a rich "character." A few others are excellent models of purity and intensity and fidelity to the grape, a concept that must rule paramount above all other considerati…

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