The Wine Club - The Queen of Burgundy
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Time:
7:00 p.m. promptly
Location:
The Wine Cabinet
Category: General Events
May 18, 7:00 p.m. is our fourth meeting of an exciting new way to increase your wine knowledge. Rodney Winchell, The Country Vintner will lead the group through an in depth study of wine varietals and regions. Classes will extend through the month of June meeting once a month on a Tuesday. You can sign up for one class -$30 per person/$50 per couple or for all five $125 per person/$200 per couple. All of your class fees will be applicable to any wines you buy the evening of the class. If you sign up for all five, the fees applicable will be pro-rated. The last date will be June 15. We hope to see you!!
Mother Nature or Man made
By tasting through a flight of Chardonnays, we will discuss yeasts, lees,malolactic fermentation and, of course, barrel selection.
Hendry Chardonnay Unoaked Napa Valley
Talmard Macon Village, Burgundy
Felino Chardonnay, Mendoza Argentina
Domaine Lamblin Chablis Permier Cru, Burgundy
Newton Chardonnay, Unfiltered, Napa Valley
Mersault, Vincent Dancer
Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used to make white wine. It is believed to have originated in the
Burgundy wine region of eastern France but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand. For new and developing wine regions, growing Chardonnay is seen as a "rite of passage" and an easy segue into the international wine market.[1]
The Chardonnay grape itself is very neutral, with many of the flavors commonly associated with the grape being derived from such influences as terroir and oak.[2] It is vinified in many different styles, from the elegant, "flinty" wines of Chablis to rich, buttery Meursaults and New World wines with tropical fruit flavors.
Chardonnay is an important component of many sparkling wines around the world, including Champagne. A peak in popularity in the late 1980s gave way to a backlash among those wine drinkers who saw the grape as a leading negative component of the globalization of wine. Nonetheless, it remains one of the most widely-planted grape varieties, with over 400,000 acres (175,000 hectares) worldwide, second only to Airén among white wine grapes and planted in more wine regions than any other grape – including Cabernet Sauvignon.[1]
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