Babo Nero d'Avola 2020 chardonnay the winemaking is designed to

the winemaking is designed to showcase the "waxy intensity" of the fruit rather than the artifact of the winery

The finish is long and textured with fine grainy grape tannins

tronconic wooden vats (fût tronconique)

and Didier is using more and more 500 L barrels

graphite and black pepper

Babo Nero d'Avola 2020 chardonnay the winemaking is designed toThe wine has a lot of Mediterranean about it, though its agile mouthfeel and supple, almost Beaujolais like fleshy feel make this quite a unique example to the variety. Perhaps this shouldn't be a surprise; the wine has plenty of semi carbonic influence (including 10% whole bunches) and is aged in massive French oak casks for 10 months before bottling.