Oaked or unoaked is the wrong question. The four cellar decisions that actually build a California Chardonnay, and how the house style swung.
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A Valle d’Aosta wine region guide: ungrafted Prié Blanc at 1,200 meters, seven sub-denominations inside one DOC, and Italy’s smallest wine output.
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A Molise wine region guide centered on Tintilia, the nearly lost native red that the region recovered, and the 200-meter rule that defines its DOC.
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A Basilicata wine region guide built around one wine: Aglianico del Vulture, grown high on an extinct volcano and picked later than almost anything.
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A Calabria wine region guide: Cirò and Gaglioppo on the Ionian coast, and the Sila mountain air that keeps the region's reds fresh.
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Italy's second-smallest wine region, farmed by hand on dry-stone terraces. Vermentino and Pigato, Rossese at Dolceacqua, sweet Sciacchetrà.
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Rome drank Lazio's white for centuries and the region got a volume reputation. Volcanic soils, Frascati's two Malvasias, and Cesanese.
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One grape, two appellations that behave differently. Verdicchio at Castelli di Jesi and Matelica, plus Montepulciano on the Conero headland.
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Umbria makes Italy's most tannic red and one of its oldest whites. Sagrantino at Montefalco, Orvieto on tufo, and how to read both.
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