Chardonnay question
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:45 pm
Can anyone tell me what is gained by not filtering chardonnay. I remember a 1998 DeRose vineyard chardonnay that Milan Maximovich made at Thunder Mountain. Nice chardonnay, but it didn't age as well as I thought it might have had it been filtered and a bit cleaner. I have a case now of 2002 Travis chardonnay that likewise has not been filtered. both wines presented a cloudy appearence and the TM really showed quite a lot of fine powder like sediment. Haven't seen this yet in the Travis, but it sure is cloudy.