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Together with Valentino Sciotti’s winemaker WINERIES with experiment to began and potential its saw fore- growers Local production. wine sparkling nay arrived in Puglia 30 years ago to improve its conditions and winemaking techniques. Chardon- is that it responds well to many different growing the grape so attractive to growers and winemakers in many wine-producing countries. What makes planted was and way big a in on caught donnay able requesting wine by specific grape type. Char- comfort- feel to began consumers when 1980s, darling of winemakers internationally in the late the became grape The Beaune. de Cote and blis of French Burgundy, including the wines of Cha- Brindisi. is the principal white grape SanyardsGuagnanoPietronear at Vernoticoin This wine is 100% Chardonnay from estate vine- 2007 Chardonnay Cantele es. 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