Pairing Wine with Food SPRING 2018

Full Bodied White Wine Chardonnay

Chardonnay Known for their rich, bold flavors. Often aged in oak barrels to add cream, vanilla, coconut, and butter flavors. Fruit flavors include lemon, apple, pear, pineapple, passionfruit, peach, and fig. Other tertiary aromas may include celery leaf, beeswax, honeysuckle, wet flint rocks, saline solution, and almond. Chardonnay

Chardonnay OAKED VS UNOAKED Oaked Chardonnays are rich, full-bodied and have additional flavors of vanilla, butter and even caramel from the oak. A cool climate, buttery Chardonnay will have more citrus flavors versus a warm climate Chardonnay, which will have more tropical fruit flavors. Chardonnay OAKED VS UNOAKED

Chardonnay OAKED VS UNOAKED Unoaked Chardonnay is closer to the zesty style of Pinot Gris or Sauvignon Blanc. Chardonnay wine tends to have less ‘green flavors’ than Sauvignon Blanc. Depending on how ripe the grapes were when picked, the flavor ranges from lemon and green apple (less ripe) to pineapple and figs (very ripe). Chardonnay OAKED VS UNOAKED

A very ripe Chardonnay will have more flavors of tropical fruits like pineapple, guava and mango. A barely ripe Chardonnay will have green apple and lemon flavors.