More than only after barrel aging can taste a Chardonnay. Chardonnay is the world’s most commonly used white wine variety. Reliable comes the grape in fashion and is also once again sidelined. Chardonnay can be described as the comeback artist among the wines thus confidently. Thus, the grape that is most versatile possibilities and a really good Chardonnay wine offers an event.

(= Process which transforms sharp Malic acid into the milder lactic acid) the initiated fermentation when the malolactic fermentation the winemaker can produce the buttery taste of the Chardonnays. In addition, he can benefit from the barrel aging. Yet this is both blessing and curse. Well applied, can give the wine more character and weight the wood and ensures more diversity with creamy caramel flavors. Low-priced wines oak chips instead of the more expensive expansion of the barrel are here often used differently long mature while more expensive wines in barrels. With many wines of the new world was in the past of the arch spans and the barrel aging given too much weight.

Thus, the wine loses its discreet charm and elegance. Now the barrel is used very much more subtle. Some wineries are now even, to offer the wine without barrel aging and thus highlight the sharpness of the wine. Let him mature into stainless steel tanks highlighting the flavors of peach, apricot, melon, fig, honey, lemon and lime. Overall, Chardonnay is an incredibly malleable grape, whose Weine evolve constantly with a balance of minerals and fruit. Depending on the growing region provides the quick-change artist under the vines this new culinary worlds. The grape produces a range of lemon, Green Apple and minerals in cooler areas such as New Zealand’s South Island or the French Chablis. In warmer growing regions such as Australia dominate more fig, melon, fruit salad. Who also provides a certain amount of time of the bottle aging the wine, rewarded after a few years with increased harmony and complexity. Should you always at Chardonnay think mainly of barrel and butter, might it be worth a chance to give the more modern, more in style. The Chardonnay has earned it with security. Petra Naubert