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Wine Description
The Story
Dobles Lias means 'double lees' in Spanish and it refers to the extended lees contact used for this small bottling of Chardonnay. Lees are essentially the yeasts that remain at the boom of the barrel after finishing the primary fermentation. Extended lees contact, a traditional Burgundian technique used in conjunction with barrel fermentation, adds richness (texture) and complexity as the yeast cells break down (yeast autolysis), releasing a...
Wine Information
Production: 140 cases
The Vinification
The grapes were harvested October 5 - 19, whole-cluster pressed and barrel fermented. Lees were stirred through the malolactic fermentation. In July 2011 we set aside 6 barrels for the future Dobles Lías. When boling the 2010 Chardonnay, we took the lees from the barrels being boled and added them to the selected 6 barrels. After giving the wine just the right amount of oak aging, in December 20...
Vintage 2010
NAPA VALLEY Vintage Report 2010
In the cellar, winemakers delighted, undeterred by challenges of Mother Nature
In some years winegrowers must feel like baseball players in the batting cage swinging at whatever Mother Nature throws their way, and for vintage 2010 in California's renowned Napa Valley this was the case. Rainfall returned after three dry years, pushed bud break, flowering and fruit-set back by at least two weeks at the front...