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2009 Pio Cesare Chardonnay Pio di Lei Langhe
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2009 Pio Cesare Chardonnay Pio di Lei Langhe

Producer: Pio Cesare
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Chardonnay
Origin: Italy
Region: Piedmont

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88 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2011

Bright medium yellow with a gold tinge.  Exotic nectarine, fresh apricot and mango on the very ripe nose, with notes of honey, nuts and marzipan emerging with air.  Rich and high in alcohol, but at the same time quite dry and savory, with plenty of fruit.  Finishes with a floral element.  This wine was vinified and aged in new barrels and went through partial malolactic fermentation.

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Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines; sweet wines and dessert wines.
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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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