2024 Jonas Dostert 'Frost' Chardonnay, Mosel, Germany Land of Saints Moscatel de Alejandria

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then eight months in barrels

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it undergoes a 5–7 day maceration on the skins

2024 Jonas Dostert 'Frost' Chardonnay, Mosel, Germany Land of Saints Moscatel de AlejandriaJonas says the Chardonnay was hard to manage with the frosts. He writes: "Chardonnay and frost. Year after year, Chardonnay is in more of a hurry than the other varieties. There's a full week between Chardonnay's bud break and that of my other varieties. Its susceptibility to frost is therefore already higher." There are two results. The first, obviously enough, is that there is very little to go around. The second, less obviously (though if you know