Chardonnay

Chardonnay- [shar-dun-NAY]

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Chardonnay is a dry style white wine. The Chardonnay grape is the most widely planted white wine grape in the world. Many times chardonnay is aged in oak barrels for a period of time before bottling, which will soften the wine and impart an oaky, buttery flavor in the wine depending on how long it is aged and if the barrels are new oak or slightly used. Some producers make unoaked versions of the wine where the wine is stainless steel fermented or aged in older oak barrels which impart very little oak character making the wine have more crisp acidity. Some producers may also put Chardonnay through a process called malolactic fermentation, a process which converts the tart malic acid to lactic acid, making the wine softer.