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2003 Double T Ranch — Gold Medal, 2005 Orange County
Fair
2002 Double T Ranch — “Complex.
Showing crisp pear, citrus flavors. Good acidity. Excellent quality
overall.” — Taste
California Travel
The boss's basic philosophy
is to make a Chardonnay his old friend Bill "Morrie" Weeks
(see quote in side bar) would drink — in
short, a white wine that even a diehard red wine fanatic would
love.
About the Double T Ranch
The Double T is a very ripe Chardonnay that the boss makes without
any wood contact. Simply judging the wine from its color — a brilliant
gold — is deceptive.
The Double T is very much in the style that many of the best
Italian winemakers use, from the Piedmont through the Trentino-Alto-Adige
to the Collio. The idea is to let the fruit shine without undue
human interference. Yet because half the wine undergoes a secondary,
or malolactic, fermentation, it doesn't come out in the tutti-fruity
style that is popular among many California wineries.
(Just so you know, many of the most popular brands of Chardonnay
have muscat added for extra fruit and wood chips for an
oaky flavor, and are finished with added grape juice to taste slightly
sweet.)
In case
you're
thinking
that
the Double T
is a
simple quaffing wine,
think again. What it proves is that the right clone of Chardonnay
grown in the right vineyard in the right climate (in this case,
the cool Carneros region) can make a superbly complex wine unencumbered
by the plethora of oak and winemaking "technique" found in too
many of today's commercial name-brand Chardonnays.
Enjoy the Double T as sipping fare, or with fish, poultry, and
more subtle vegetarian dishes.
— Skippy, Chief Cellar
Rat
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“Red wine is what you drink. White
wine is
what you wash pick-ups with.”
— William Morrison Weeks, former Cabernet
Sauvignon grower
"I don't go to football to drink Chardonnay in
the boardroom with those twats." — Simon
Jordan, entrepreneur
"The American elite is almost beyond redemption....
Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush—sophistry washed down with Chardonnay." — Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard,
British journalist and writer
Mother Superior called all the nuns together and
said to them, "I must tell you all something. We have a case
of gonorrhea in the convent."
"Thank God," said
an elderly nun at the back. "I'm so tired of Chardonnay." —
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