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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #1E347C;">Special Notes:</span><br>
Michaud is offering a rare vertical of six of the last seven vintages. With this tasting you receive consecutive vintages from 1998-2004 with the exception of 1999, which is not included.<br><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #1E347C;">Tasting Notes:</span><br>
<b>1998:</b> "The 9-year-old wine was showing some maderizing from years in the bottle, but it still had freshness and a patina of minerality that was consistent throughout. The presence of oak is at a minimum, used merely to round out the wine, the acidity throughout is prevalent and welcomed..."<br>
<b>2000:</b>"There are hints of melon and the minerality from the limestone and granite soil gives it a clean freshness. In the mouth, this Chardonnay is stylish and elegant with gorgeous fruit and perfect balance."<br>
<b>2001:</b> "The wine reaches the perfect pitch – that is, flavor and balance – with fresh and vibrant citrus in the end."<br>
<b>2002:</b> Showy, youthful and enticing, rich and smooth textured, layers of fruit and a long finish.<br>
<b>2003:</b>The aromas and flavor are vibrant and suggestive of peach, nectarine, apricot and apple. This wine is very expressive of its place of origin.<br>
<b>2004:</b>Just released! Drink for the next 10 years...
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #1E347C;">Vineyard Notes:</span><br>
It is rare in the United States that limestone occurs in areas suitable for vineyards. Limestone is a key component in the minerally flavors of great Burgundies and it is because of the region’s dramatic geologic history that limestone occurs in today’s Gabilan mountains.
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The <a href="http://wine.appellationamerica.com/wine-region/Chalone.html" target=_new>Chalone</a> Appellation sits adjacent to the San Andreas Fault, the tectonic meeting of the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. The great Pacific Plate that is west of the fault line was once and for eons the bed of the ocean. Countless generations of sea life formed a marine sediment that eventually compacted and became limestone, only to be thrust above the surface of the ocean by the great force of the grinding plates. The limestone combined with granite from the North American plate to form the ideal soil type; well-drained decomposed granite and limestone with some clay.
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