Winery Passing CloudsChardonnay
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The Chardonnay of the Winery Passing Clouds is in the top 0 of wines of Goulburn Valley.
Details and technical informations about Winery Passing Clouds's Chardonnay.
Discover the grape variety: Plavac mali
Croatian Dalmatia more precisely. It can also be found in Greece (Macedonia), Montenegro, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. According to genetic analyses conducted by the California University of Davis (United States), it is the result of an intraspecific cross between zinfandel (called crljenak kastelanski or pribidag in Croatia) and dobricic, another Croatian grape variety that is now somewhat endangered. - Synonyms: pagadebit veliki, sarak, zelenak (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here!).
Informations about the Winery Passing Clouds
The Winery Passing Clouds is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in the of Goulburn Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Goulburn Valley
The wine region of Goulburn Valley is located in the region of Central Victoria of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine McPherson or the Domaine Laneway produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Goulburn Valley are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Goulburn Valley often reveals types of flavors of tropical, cherry or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of microbio, floral or tree fruit.
The wine region of Victoria
Victoria is a relatively small but important Australian wine state. Located in the Southeastern corner of the continent, with a generally cool, ocean-influenced Climate, Victorian wine is remarkably diverse, producing all sorts of wines and styles in different climates. In all, the state covers almost 250,000 square kilometres (over 90,000 square miles) of land (almost the same Size as the US state of Texas), well under a quarter the size of its western neighbour, South Australia, and less than a third the size of New South Wales to the North. As such, Victoria's size - and to some extent, the state's viticultural history - can defy generalization.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
