Especially when both the melon and the true pinot blanc are made the way good chardonnay is made - with barrel fermentation, oak aging, that sort of thing.

Once limited to small wineries, barrel fermentation is now "measured in the tens of thousands of barrels, not the hundreds," the report said.

Although it had the air of barrel fermentation, Tom Sidor, the tasting room manager, said it had been reared wholly in steel tanks.

Thanks to barrel fermentation for much of the wine in the blend, the finished product is rich and complex.

They are typically light bodied but producers who use barrel fermentation and oak aging can produce fuller bodied wines.

The best sauce is the first that is drained off the anchovies after six months of barrel fermentation.

Produce minimum foaming during fermentation which may create difficulties for cap management during maceration or cause bungs to pop out during barrel fermentation.

In producing the reserve, he says, he uses such "classic time-tested techniques as full barrel fermentation and prolonged aging in new French oak barrels."

Full barrel fermentation does not hatch my favorite style of chardonnay; I prefer the fruitier, more fully food-oriented versions reared in steel tanks, a neutral medium.

Though very rich from ripe grapes, barrel fermentation and 16 months in cask, the wine is not heavy bodied.