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Kongsgaard

Having left Luna Vineyards, John Kongsgaard now makes his own wines at Chateau Boswell, as well as the Arietta wines with partner Fritz Hatton. Both sets of wines continue to rank among California's most flamboyantly rich and complex bottles. It's an objective of mine not to make California-style wines," is how Kongsgaard describes his taste in wine and approach to vinification and elevage He makes one of California's most individual chardonnays from a north-facing hillside site owned by his family in the southeastern part of Napa Valley. Kongsgaard bottles the chardonnay nearly two years after the harvest. If you don't add sulfur until late in elevage the fruit has a chance to sink into the wine," he explains. The early-bottled examples just have fermentation fruits, which only last a year or so in bottle. Once this superficial fruit is gone, you're left with very little character."

From Focus on California (May 2003) by Stephen Tanzer

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2000 Chardonnay Napa Valley

Release Price: $70

Color: White

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