It is a dry wine that has a balance of fruit, acidity, and texture. Depending on what the winemaker uses for storage, Chardonnay can range from clean and crisp wines to rich, complex, oak-aged wines.
It is a dry wine that has a balance of fruit, acidity, and texture. Depending on what the winemaker uses for storage, Chardonnay can range from clean and crisp wines to rich, complex, oak-aged wines.
If you're looking for a Chardonnay similar to Kendall-Jackson, consider trying the Sonoma-Cutrer Russian River Ranches Chardonnay. It offers a balance of ripe fruit flavors, oak influence, and a creamy texture, reminiscent of Kendall-Jackson's style. Another option is the La Crema Sonoma Coast Chardonnay, which features a similar profile of citrus, stone fruit, and subtle toasty notes. Both wines provide a rich, approachable experience that fans of Kendall-Jackson may enjoy.
Wines taste better when aged in an oak cask. These casks are later used to make very mellow malt whiskies. The taste of the wine flavours the whisky.
Quite simply, unwooded Chard or "unoaked" is wine that has never seen the inside of an oak barrel. Typically it will be wine that is fermented in a stainless tank, as opposed to a wooden (oak) cask/barrel. The oak typically helps to balance the tannins, among other things, and gives wine that "full mouth" feel with lots of mid-palate tastes. Unoaked wines are great for people who claim to have an "allergy" to wine. It is the tannins that people typically react to, and those come from both the skins and stems of the grapes, but also from the oak barrels. If you don't "oak" a wine, the you have a lower tannin level which should make the wine bearable to drink for the aforementioned crowd.
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Chardonnay would be a good choice. This popular dry white wine is more full bodied than other white wines. Chardonnay has aromas of fruits and acidity. The aroma typically has flavors of lemon or grapefruit. Fermentation in new oak barrels results in a rich, buttery taste often described as toastiness, vanilla, apple, nutty, or toffee. Chardonnays aged in French oak result in a milder flavor than those aged in American oak. Another possibility is Sauvignon Blanc. Lighter than Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc usually has a grassy citrus aroma. Flavors range from apple, pear, green tea, limes and freshly mowed grass. You can often detect a little smokiness. California Sauvignon Blancs sometimes have a melon flavor. This is a crisp light wine with a strong acid finish. It is also called Fume Blanc.American Sauvignon Blanc tends to be grassier than those produced in New Zealand.
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Different White Wines Offer Different pH Levels Lower Acidity The white wine grape called viognier produces wines that can have very low acidity (a higher pH #). I've seen a California viognier with a pH of 4.1 Medium Acidity A chardonnay grown Napa Valley that has been aged in oak (adding a buttery and smooth character) often ranges from 3.4-3.6 Medium Plus Acidity A chardonnay from Chablis in France ranges from about 3.0-3.2 High Acidity A riesling from Germany (known for having very high acidity) can have a pH as low as 2.8
Seasoned (dry) white oak may be one of the BEST woods you can use. Oak, hickory, and ash wood have high heat values, low creosote production, and long lasting coals. Good stuff!