CLOS du BOIS CHARDONNAY 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"In 1974, Frank Woods founded Clos du Bois with a vision of blending the French winemaking techniques with the best California grapes to craft balanced, approachable wines. Year after year, our wines have been recognized by both wine critics and wine enthusiasts alike. From our California Collection to the Proprietary Wine Collection, Clos du Bois wines showcase 45+ years of winemaking tradition and expertise.

Clos du Bois 2024 Chardonnay is a rich wine with layers of ripe pear and citrus underscored by creamy notes of butter and toasty oak. The grapes for this wine were grown in California vineyards that offer the vines ideal conditions to thrive and develop optimal flavour concentration—dry summers, cool winters and fertile soils.

We harvested the grapes in the cool of night, then gently pressed them to preserve the Chardonnay's fruit characteristics. After settling, the juice was partially barrel fermented in a combination of French and American oak, with the remaining juice undergoing fermentation in stainless steel. To soften the wine's acidity and impart a rich and creamy mouthfeel, we put the wine through malolactic fermentation."