Saturday 2 May 2015

Casa Valduga Leopoldina Chardonnay 2013

From - Campanha, Brazil
Grape - Chardonnay
Alc - 12%
Available from - Waitrose
Price £13.99 (although £10.11 until Tues 7th April)

Appearance - Clean; medium intensity; lemon-green

Nose - Clean; medium intensity; youthful; apple and stone fruit.

Palate - dry; high acid; medium alcohol, medium intensity; medium body, medium+ length, apples and pears, citrus (lemon) and tropical (kiwi).

This is a classy, elegant, cool climate Chardonnay.  Lovely fruit flavours with the oak influence being only subtle.  If this were made in France  it'd be much more expensive.  Excellent.

Many thanks to all my recent readers in Ukraine and Russia.







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