Food Pairings

• • Salads
• • Roast  Chicken
• • Lobster
• • White  Fish
• • Crab  Cakes
• • Grilled  Chicken

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Mill Creek Dry Creek Valley Chardonnay 2005		U.S.A.
An easy-drinking California Chardonnay with fresh fruit flavors balanced with a touch of oak.

Release Notes:

Price : $13.75  Qty:  Item No. : 19963  Our Rating : 92  Country : U.S.A.  Region : Sonoma  Grape : Chardonnay  Alcohol : 14.5%

Dry Creek Valley Chardonnays tend to be more subtle and food friendly than other examples of California Chardonnay. Mill Creek’s estate Chard is a good example, balancing fresh fruit and oak flavors without becoming overpowering. The grapes are harvested before dawn so that they are still cold when crushed and pressed. A portion of the juice is barrel fermented and malolactic fermentation is strictly controlled to maintain the fresh apple flavors and mineral notes typical of Chardonnay. Although this wine makes a very good aperitif, it is an even better accompaniment to food. It was a silver medalist at the Sonoma County fair.

Tasting Notes:

A bright golden colored wine with green apple, lemon, cream and toasted almond aromas. On the palate citrus, melon and oak flavors are delicately melded in this medium-bodied wine leading to a refreshingly round and clean finish. Drink now to 2009 as an aperitif or with grilled chicken, Caesar salad, white fish, crab cakes, roasted poultry or lobster.

Winery:

MILL CREEK is one of the older family owned and operated wineries in Sonoma County. The Kreck family has lived and farmed in the Dry Creek Valley area since 1948 and... Read more