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<H1>Chardonnay HMR Estate 2007 -- Adelaida Shopping Cart</H1>
<B>$32.00</B>
-- <I><b><font color="666666">90 Points Wine Enthusiast </font></b></I>
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<td valign="top" align="left" style="border-right: #ece9d8; padding-right: 9pt; border-top: #ece9d8; padding-left: 9pt; padding-bottom: 0in; border-left: #ece9d8; padding-top: 0in; border-bottom: #ece9d8; background-color: transparent; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-element: frame; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 81.05pt; mso-height-rule: exactly; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Optima; ">These 34 year old Chardonnay vines lie in a cool microclimate on the north side of windy Peachy Canyon Road on Paso Robles’ mountainous Westside, part of Adelaida’s HMR Estate Vineyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes; "> </span>On their own roots they are affected by the native calcareous soils, whose alkaline chalkiness reduce their vigor, allowing miniscule yields of one ton of fruit/acre. Extemes of chilling night-time marine air from the nearby <place w:st="on"></place>Pacific Ocean give the ripe fruit a bracing natural acidity to accent the limestone mineral terroir.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-element: frame; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 81.05pt; mso-height-rule: exactly; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Optima; "></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; ">Cool, dry winter weather added the additional stress of low moisture in the porous soils, further contributing to low yields and small berries with high fruit definition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes; "> </span>Fruit maturity was ideal by the end of August, preceding hotter weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes; "> </span>Destemmed and fermented in 3 to 6 year old neutral French oak barrels on native yeast, the new wine went through its secondary malolactic at the onset of winter, retaining some 33% natural malic acidity through the winemakers intervention. After 9 months in oak with minimal once a month lees stirring only the best barrels were selected for bottling under the Adelaida label, a severe selection down to 10 barrels.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-element: frame; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element-anchor-vertical: page; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 81.05pt; mso-height-rule: exactly; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; "></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; ">Immediately approachable in its youthful exuberance, the wine conjures up sea shell and vanilla bean aromatics, yet delivers expansive texture in its rich mouthfilling viscosity, finishing with a complex mix of lime zest, crisp apple fruit and flinty minerality. Here is Puligny Montrachet for 1/3 the price.<p> </p>
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