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$42.17
$44.39
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$40.79
Aromas of Golden Delicious Apple, white peach, and nectarine are accented with nougat, honeydew, and brown sugar....
750ml
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$35.82
$37.20
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$35.34
Peters Vineyard, planted between 1991 and 1996 on land previously home to an apple orchard, is located just southwest...
750ml
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$19.94
$21.60
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$19.54
Toasted oak and cinnamon stick accent this big-boned, fleshy and opulent white wine, which is intensely flavored and...
750ml
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$33.75
$36.00
Plush and well-spiced, with buttery notes to the ripe pear and Gala apple flavors that are backed by rich acidity....
750ml
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$26.94
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Weather Wines’ infatuation with Chardonnay continues with this elegantly-complex release from the esteemed Sonoma...
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Ceritas Chardonnay Carex 2020
750ml - Case of 6
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$97.76
The 2020 Chardonnay Carex is bright and nicely focused. Slate, crushed rocks, mint, white pepper and sage lend quite...
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Hartford Court Chardonnay Seascape 2016
750ml - Case of 6
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$105.01
The 2016 Hartford Court Chardonnay Seascape Vineyard leaps from the glass with exuberant notes of green mangoes,...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$135.01
93-95 The 2012 Chardonnay Stone Cote Vineyard (a block within the Durell Vineyard planted on gravelly riverbed soils)...
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Peay Vineyards Chardonnay Estate 2019
750ml - Case of 12
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$69.65
Lovely, rounded aromas of toasted herbs, matchbox, baked lemon and dried flowers. Medium-bodied and sleek. The...
Chardonnay United States California Sonoma Coast
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.