Bodan Roan Chardonnay 2023 750ml

The Bodan Roan Chardonnay from California offers a delightful tasting experience and excellent value. It features flavors of apple, pear, peach, and citrus fruits like lemon and lime. Aromas include orchard fruits, tropical notes such as pineapple and kiwi, with hints of butter and cream. This wine has a pale golden color and bright clarity. Its medium body is crisp and refreshing, balancing fruit flavors with acidity. The palate reveals layers of ripe apple, pear, peach, apricot, and citrus notes. Aging for six months in neutral oak barrels adds subtle vanilla notes without overpowering the fruit-forward profile. This oak treatment, along with full malolactic fermentation, contributes to a buttery texture and enhances complexity.

• Country: United States
• Region: California
• Size: 750ml
• Color: White

Varietal

Chardonnay

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one that has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is Chardonnay. This green-skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity, which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.