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2011 Diatom Chardonnays

Greg Brewer of Brewer-Clifton wines released two wines recently from his Diaton project. The 2011 Hana Shinbu and 2011 Hamon Chardonnays. These are tank fermented, see no wood at all and are very minamalist in there handling. Hard to describe these wines but they bear very little resemblence to any chardonnay that I've ever had before. Hana Shinobu shows a saline character with lime, grapefruit and mineral notes that reminds me more of Sake than Chardonnay. Quite lean and precise. The Hamon was slightly heavier with pronounced citrus peel, mandarin orange and slightly floral. These wines were more like Sauvingon Blanc than chardonnay.

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Bi!!
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Not seen these around. Do they have a wide distribution?

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lleichtman

I was interested in the name (by the way, it is diato*m*.) Googling Brewer's pages, all I see is mysticism about how pure is diatomaceous earth and assignment of Kanji characters to land parcels. What's actually going on; are the vines grown in diatomaceous dirt or are the the wines filtered with diatomaceous earth? The pages are irritatingly hard to read; typically gray letters on light gray, so I may have missed something.

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James Silverton
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James Silverton

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