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$12.34
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The 2019 Chardonnay Wetzel Family Estate is scented of green pears, white flowers, baker's yeast and cashews. The...
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$18.95
$20.20
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$17.48
Powerful, with richness to the concentrated salted butterscotch, peach pastry and dried apricot flavors. Delivers...
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$12.56
$13.22
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$7.63
Elegant in style, this Chardonnay radiates aromas of apple, lime and pear. Subtle oak and the addition of Chenin...
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$12.59
$13.25
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$10.45
The fresh aromas of lime zest, nectarine, peach and apple combined with the perfumed vanilla and toasted oak bouquet...
375ml - Case of 12
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$7.84
The nose exudes aromas of tropical fruits and citrus married with subtle oak notes. On the palate, this wine is a...
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$11.11
$12.35
Shows peach, yellow apple and tangerine flavors that are fresh and juicy, with details of buttery pastry and spicy...
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$12.67
$14.08
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$12.34
This wine opens with bright aromas of Meyer lemon and yellow apple, punctuated by hints of butterscotch and subtle...
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$7.13
Bosc pear, lemon meringue, graham cracker, white flowers. Creamy body with fresh fruit, citrus notes and bright...
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$11.11
$12.35
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$7.83
Aromas of baked apple, mango, nutmeg and flint. It’s medium-to full-bodied with crisp acidity and creamy, ripe...
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$21.06
$23.40
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Aromas of ripe yellow peach, melon, and chamomile all framed by freshly baked pie crust. The palate is bright with...
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$19.94
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$19.54
Crisp and chalky on the nose, this appellation blend offers aromas of grapefruit peel, white-fleshed fruits and a...
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$18.60
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$18.23
This classic Carneros Chardonnay was grown primarily on the Schug Estate vineyard, with additional barrels from our...
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$10.94
$12.35
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$10.45
SIMI California Chardonnay White Wine showcases luscious fruit flavors of apple, pear, peach, and tropical fruit....
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$10.99
Russian River Ranches is beautifully focused on the palate with flavors of crisp, zesty lemon, green apple, lime and...
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$11.92
$13.25
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$10.45
Lemon curd, orange sherbet, pear and yellow apple flavors show notes of green tea, spice and ginger on a compact,...
375ml - Case of 12
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$36.00
The 2022 Salus is rich and expressive with heady aromas of honeysuckle and chamomile surrounding a core of...
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$16.04
$16.88
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$14.25
A complex Chardonnay from the cooler southern appellations within Napa Valley. White and stone fruit flavors,...
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$13.38
$14.08
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$11.52
Our Napa Valley Chardonnay is smooth and elegantly balanced. Aromas of butterscotch and praline lead to beautifully...
Chardonnay United States California 375ml
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.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.