Variety: 85% Chardonnay, 15% Viognier
Region: Mendoza
Country: Argentina
Year: 2012
Price: $7.95
Wine Shop Review: 30% Malolactic fermentation, 30% was aged in French oak barrels. Brilliant yellow golden color with green hints. The wine is crisp and filled with white peach, pear, green apples flavors, toasty vanilla. Elegant and luscious wine, well balanced. Crisp and long finish. Pairs well with creamy soups, pork, veal, vegetables.
My Review: This wine also had a relatively thin nose, like the previous one we tried, the Villa d' Orvieto. It had a more prominent golden color, though, and it had a great tart green apple taste. We discussed what malolactic fermentation brings to the wine with the pourer, and thats probably what contributed to some of that granny-smith apple taste. It also had a very subtle oak flavor, also likely from the second fermentation process - but I didn't really understand what the description was trying to say with that...Nonetheless, a decent Chardonnay.
I did not have food with this.
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