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Wine Description
The Story
Chateau Montelena’s Napa Chardonnay showed that the new world could create classicly balanced and complex wines in its own voice, and that from the right sites and with perseverance, the results could equal anything made the world over. Through fads and trends, Montelena has never changed in its philosophy of bringing the sunshine of California in a style that is structured, balanced and age worthy.
In 1976, in what is now memorialized as “...
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VINTAGE WEATHER
The 2011 vintage is an excellent example of the stylistic target of this wine. The cool growing season resulted in lower sugars and longer, slower flavor development. This allowed us to really hone in on the narrow band of flavors that we aim for without having to contend with any of the ‘noise’ that we see in the really ripe (hotter) years. So don’t believe everything you hear in the press about 2011 – it really was an exce...