Bigger Than Your Head

Bigger Than Your Head

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Feb 06, 2012
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Blended with 10 percent fiano grapes, the Tormaresca Chardonnay 2010, Puglia I.G.T., ferments 90 percent in stainless steel and 10 percent

in second-use French oak barriques, followed by three months aging in French and Hungarian oak. The result is a pure yet delicate expression of the chardonnay grape subtly supported by a tinge, a sheen of oak that inf…

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