'04 Toad Hollow Chardonnay

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2004 Toad Hollow, Francine's Selection, Mendocino County, Chardonnay ($11.99 NH Liquor Store). Alcohol level 13.9%. This is a wine that KC recommended for those who want a little butter but no wood in a Chardonnay. We immediately figured it might go with chicken in cream sauce. It has had malocactic fermentation on the lees for 8 months, and it was done in stainless steel tanks (no oak at all).

Gave apples and pears on the nose and upfront. Nice acidity with lemon (!) fruit in the buttery complexity across the middle, and a really lovely finish. Matched very well as expected with sauteed chicken breasts in the Italian manner with sauteed almond slices in the cream sauce. Yum, yum!