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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 6 - 20, whole-cluster pressed and barrel fermented. Lees were stirred through the malolactic fermentation. In May 2013 we set aside six barrels for the future Dobles Lías. When bottling the 2012 Chardonnay, we took the lees from the barrels being bottled and added them to the selected six barrels. After giving the wine just the right amount of oak aging, in March ...
