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Mad Squirrel Chardonel

Mad Squirrel Chardonel Wine Details
Price: $5.99 per bottle

Description: Un-Oaked, crisp dry white wine ...one where the pure fruit flavors of the grapes are allowed to speak for themselves. Slow fermented with exotic yeast at 52 degrees in icy chilled temperature-controlled tanks. This wine bursts with tropical fruit overtones: pineapple, guava, orchids and citrus.

Varietal Definition
Chardonel:
Chardonel was developed in New York State, to be a late-ripening, highly-productive, cold-climate varietal. A cross of Chardonnay and Seyval Blanc, Chardonel is proving its value in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. Given much of the same treatment as Chardonnay, it adapts well to barrel fermention, and controlled lees contact. The result is often a full-bodied dry wine, high in alcohol and acidity, with a similar, if less pronounced character than Chardonnay.


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