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2008 Casa Lapostolle Chardonnay Cuvee Alexandre Atalayas Vineyard Casablanca Valley
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2008 Casa Lapostolle Chardonnay Cuvee Alexandre Atalayas Vineyard Casablanca Valley

Producer: Casa Lapostolle
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Chardonnay
Origin: Chile
Region: Chile

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87 Points | International Wine Cellar , March/April 2010

($24) Green-gold color. Pit fruits, smoky oak, vanilla and a whiff of truffle on the pungent nose. Fat and sweet, with flavors of poached pear, peach, truffle and vanilla bean lifted by cinnamon and clove. Not exactly a subtle style, showing strong oaky character but also good depth of fruit. The spicy quality lingers on the back end, along with a sweet candied peach note.

90 Points | Wine Spectator

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About Chile

Virtually every wine region in Chile benefits from proximity to the Pacific Ocean and the cooling Humboldt Current that flows up from the South Pole. Although Chile extends more than 2,000 miles from north to south, its grape-growing regions are clustered in the center of the country, where rainfall is concentrated during the winter months, and where an absence of fungal diseases makes for relatively carefree grape-farming.
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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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