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What Chardonnay Style Are You?
The exciting thing about Chardonnay is its ability to accommodate so many styles, allowing for a great degree of latitude in expression on the part of the winemaker. Unlike any other grape, Chardonnay can be graceful and elegant, light and fruity, or serious and provocative. Hugely malleable, it comes in many shapes and forms. In his report* on Chardonnay, Christian Eedes sums up well the five faces of Chardonnay (see chart below). Grape quality and oak are instrumental in shaping the final outcome of great Chardonnay
programs, as is the management of both alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. The Chr. Hansen non- Saccharomyces and Saccharomyces yeast and malolactic bacteria selections provide winemakers with the ability to form Chardonnay into what is required to define and differentiate programs, offering tools to accentuate full fruit expression, or complexity through diacetyl production, or somewhere in between. These same tools are easily applied to other grape varieties, but Chardonnay does it so well.
Style
Fruit Expression
Palate Weight
Non- Saccharomyces Yeast
Saccharomyces Yeast
Malolactic Bacteria
Ligh t -bodied
F rootZen
Merit
CiNe
– with lime fruit and acidity
for partial or total MLF
Fruit-driven
F rootZen
Merit
CiNe
– with moderate acidity
Traditional
F rootZen
Melody
CH11
– ripe citrus and oak
Burgundian
P relude
Melody
CH35
– flinty, leesy, more savoury
Spontaneous ferment – rich, broad, honeyed
P relude
Merit
CH35
*The Christian Eedes Chardonnay Report – 2012
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