| 41. | TEOFILO REYES, TINTO COSECHA, 1997 $ 39 Very oaky, sweet fruit flavors with an herbal edge.
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| 42. | If you find yourself with leftovers of one of the less-oaky Chardonnays, save it for cooking.
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| 43. | The average white wine will pale by comparison, but a big oaky Chardonnay will with fight the soup.
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| 44. | And, like Chardonnay, the variety can be made in an overly oaky and " fat " style.
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| 45. | In later years he drew " Oaky Doaks " from his home in Tenafly, New Jersey.
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| 46. | Some are oaky and buttery, while others may seem almost austere at first but open slowly in the glass.
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| 47. | The chardonnay has been fermenting but a day, yet already has the oaky quality of a fine white wine.
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| 48. | Everyone knew their California chardonnays in the'80s, even though they were all the same-- overly oaky.
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| 49. | Some of them are cloaked in sweet oaky flavors while others fall into an undistinguished category of reds without any character.
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| 50. | However, Clarke notes that wines from Blaufr�nkisch can take on too much oak flavoring and come across as excessively oaky.
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