Chardonnay

Chardonnay is the second variety unlocked by default and likely the second grape you will grow in most playthroughs. Relatively easy to make well and in quantity, this will easily fill your warehouse with sellable wines, with the drawback seeming to be a lower bottle price on average.


 * In Piedmont, Principe is nearly always a neutral or better terroir for Chardonnay.
 * Chardonnay can be made to 4 stars with only the basic barrels. This is balanced by the fact that the bottles sell for less than Barbera, the other starting variety. To make good money on Chardonnay, focus on warehouse upgrades to sell more bottles per day.

Journal Entry
Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine. The Chardonnay grape itself is neutral, with many of the flavors commonly associated with the wine being derived from such influences as terroir and oak.

Guide
Pruning


 * Double Guyot

Harvest


 * Target 6 acidity. Generally this means wait several turns so be sure to inspect the vineyard before starting harvest. This also allows fermenting to 3 sweetness instead of 2.



Crush

Fermentation


 * Target 3 sweetness.
 * This should take the minimum number of turns unless rain delayed your harvest.
 * Flavors to target: ???.

Press


 * Target 2 tannins. Typically a 49% press will be sufficient.
 * You may target 3 tannins, increasing body in order to attempt to make up for a lack of barrels in your earliest years.

Malolactic Fermentation


 * No

Aging


 * Target 6 body.

Bottling


 * Currently bottling has no effect on the points rating outcome of your wine. Don't use natural cork as it causes the cork taint fault

Tasting

Trivia

 * Chardonnay is an important component of many sparkling wines around the world, including Champagne.
 * Chardonnay is one of the most widely planted grape varieties worldwide, second only to Airén among white wine grapes and fifth among all wine grapes.
 * Chardonnay negatively viewed as a symbol of the globalization of wine, in which local grape varieties were often uprooted in favor of this more international accepted grape. Many of these vineyards were old and viewed as locally important examples and helped create the 'ABC movement, "anything but Chardonnay" in the mid-90's.