Kistler Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2000

Kistler Chardonnay is made using traditional French techniques, with the winemaker himself performing the cellar work on the wines. Kistler Chardonnay has a distinct character. It is completely barrel-fermented using indigenous and cultured yeasts, is aged in 50% new French oak barrel unracked and in contact with all its fermentation lees has undergone a malolactic fermentation, receives minimal handling and processing, and is bottled unfiltered and, if clarity permits, unfined after 11-18 months of barrel age.