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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $113.40
12 bottles: $111.13
Tasted single blind against its peers. This has a very well -defined nose of dried pineapple, quince and vanilla pod...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $413.91 $459.90
Barrel sample. Impressively balanced, with the fruit rich, intense with a golden glow. The acidity is as important as...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $35.34
It opens with fragrant aromas of pear, brioche, beeswax, honey, and sweet spice. On the palate, this wine is ample...
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $448.64
The 2008 Corton-Charlemagne comes across as super-classic in its chiseled fruit. Today the 2008 is holding back much...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $72.95
Tasted single blind against its peers. This has a very well -defined nose of dried pineapple, quince and vanilla pod...
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93
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $288.95
Barrel sample. Impressively balanced, with the fruit rich, intense with a golden glow. The acidity is as important as...
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98
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $322.25
Barrel sample. Impressively balanced, with the fruit rich, intense with a golden glow. The acidity is as important as...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $49.84
Pale orange-gold. Tangy aromas of peach, tangerine and honey are pure but a bit youthfully subdued; this reminded me...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $52.87
92-94 Barrel sample. Rich rather than sweet, this is stuffed full of botrytis. The wine is powered through with this...
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White
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $1659.08 $1764.98
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White
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $1398.95
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White
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $84.95
#59 Top100, 2010. Aromas of citrus blossom and chalk dust lead into lemon, vanilla, peach and mineral in this...
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White
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $15509.50
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $309.95
Discreet if not invisible wood frames a reserved but ripe, fresh and high-toned white peach and green apple nose that...
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White
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $718.95
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White
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $313.22
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White
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $1139.28 $1212.00
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $828.23
94-95 Tasted after the corresponding Blanchots, Raveneau’s 2008 Chablis Valmur brings one back stunningly to an...
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White
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle: $1139.28 $1212.00
94-95 Tasted after the corresponding Blanchots, Raveneau’s 2008 Chablis Valmur brings one back stunningly to an...
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White
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $890.43
This taut, stretched white offers a fine interplay of elements. Lemon, apple, mineral and saline flavors evolve on...
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Chardonnay Semillon/sauvignon Blanc 2008 750ml

Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.