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2002 Cloudy Bay Vineyards Chardonnay Marlborough
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2002 Cloudy Bay Vineyards Chardonnay Marlborough

Producer: Cloudy Bay Vineyards
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Chardonnay
Origin: New Zealand
Region: New Zealand

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09/28/2004
by gamay10665525
One of my favorite Chardonnay's. Ihad never been exposed to New Zealand wines before and was pleasnatly surprised by this choice. My former boss is a Sommelier and selected this wine at a dinner.

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About New Zealand

New Zealand's ocean-influenced climate--markedly cooler than that of its neighbor Australia--yields wines with admirable fruit intensity and crisp acidity. Fully two-thirds of New Zealand's wine production is white, and more than half of the wine it ships to America is Sauvignon Blanc. The U.S. market has developed a major thirst for these juicy, fresh New Zealand Sauvignons, which are mostly free of oak influence. But New Zealand Pinot Noir, too, is growing...
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Chardonnay

The best Chardonnays in the world continue to arrive from the region where the grape first emerged: the chalk, clay, and limestone vineyards of Burgundy and Chablis. While the origins of the grape were disputed for many years, with some speculating that the grape came all the way from the Middle East, DNA researchers at the University of California-Davis proved in 1999 that Chardonnay actually developed...
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