Valle d'Aosta Chardonnay Cuvée Bois 2008

Les Crêtes (Italy)

Chardonnay
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✧

Valle d'Aosta Chardonnay Cuvée Bois shows an intense golden yellow color and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas that start with hints of banana, hazelnut and plum followed by aromas of apple, acacia, pear, grapefruit, vanilla, citrus fruit peel, butter, praline and mineral. The mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and however balanced by alcohol, full body, intense flavors, pleasing roundness. The finish is very persistent with long flavors of banana, plum and hazelnut. Valle d'Aosta Chardonnay Cuvée Bois ages for 10 months in cask followed by 8 months of aging in bottle.
Alcohol: 13%
Pasta with meat, Roasted white meat, Roasted fish
Suggested glass	12 °C (53 °F)
(Bodied and Mature White Wines)
October 2011