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Wine of the Day, No. 565

Wine of the Day, No. 565

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Fredric Koeppel
Mar 18, 2020
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Friends, there's a lot of chardonnay here for the price. The Gary Farrell Olivet Lane Vineyard Chardonnay 2017, Russian River Valley, derives from vines planted in 1975. The wine aged nine months in 35 percent new French oak barriques and a 65 percent combination of one-to-three-year-old barriques and 500-liter oak puncheons. I applaud the thoughtful na…

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