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Geoff Merrill Reserve Chardonnay McLaren Vale/Coonawarra 2019 £25.00

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Grape varieties

Chardonnay

Region

McLaren Vale is 40 Km to the South of Adelaide approximately. It experiences all four season with a Mediterranean climate. Its is only 15-20 km from the sea means it has a more even temperature range between the day and night and protects it from frost and drought.

Style

The Chardonnay grape is the world’s most popular grape variety and more often than not will have seen oak, usually through a period of maturation in oak barrels before being bottled and released. The oak imparts rich, creamy, vanilla flavours into the wine to produce big, full-bodied whites. Australia put Chardonnay on the map as an everyday wine but the grape originates from Burgundy in France. Here, in Chablis for example, the wines are very different in style with more mineral flavours, less oak. Chardonnay is often blended with the Semillon grape

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