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750ml
Bottle:
$17.42
$18.34
12 bottles:
$16.82
This barrel fermented, full malo-lactic Chardonnay has a shiny golden tone and expresses beautiful lemon verbena and...
750ml
Bottle:
$16.12
$17.91
12 bottles:
$13.99
Shows lime sherbet, tangerine and spice flavors that are robust and appealing, with notes of toast on the finish....
750ml
Bottle:
$18.36
$20.40
12 bottles:
$16.63
Rich and creamy on the palate, displaying intense aromatics of preserved lemon, baked apples, baking spices and vanilla
375ml
Bottle:
$11.92
$13.25
12 bottles:
$10.45
Lemon curd, orange sherbet, pear and yellow apple flavors show notes of green tea, spice and ginger on a compact,...
750ml
Bottle:
$18.97
$20.40
Aromas and flavors of fresh melon, citrus, pineapple and butterscotch lead off this medium-bodied Chardonnay,...
750ml
Bottle:
$21.66
$22.80
12 bottles:
$18.24
This Napa Valley Chardonnay delivers inviting aromas of pear, pineapple, and orange blossom with a lifted floral...
750ml
Bottle:
$33.48
$37.20
This is a graceful Chardonnay with pleasing citrus, orange blossom and apricot aromas. The wine is medium to...
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$68.95
This is a wonderful, flamboyant chardonnay with density and layers of fruit, as well as all the trimmings, from apple...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$168.00
Just bottled, the 2022 Chardonnay Estate is bright and nicely focused, which is quite an achievement in this vintage....
375ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$36.00
The 2022 Salus is rich and expressive with heady aromas of honeysuckle and chamomile surrounding a core of...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$59.90
The 2022 Salus is rich and expressive with heady aromas of honeysuckle and chamomile surrounding a core of...
375ml
Bottle:
$16.04
$16.88
12 bottles:
$14.25
A complex Chardonnay from the cooler southern appellations within Napa Valley. White and stone fruit flavors,...
750ml
Bottle:
$27.72
$30.80
12 bottles:
$25.84
Mandarin orange, yellow pear and acacia followed by almonds and sour cream with baking spices and salted caramel....
750ml
Bottle:
$18.36
$20.40
12 bottles:
$16.63
Fragrant aromas of crisp apple, citrus led by lemon zest and lime, lemon crème and toasted hazelnut lead to a richly...
750ml
Bottle:
$14.64
$15.41
12 bottles:
$11.52
Sterling Vintner’s Collection offers hand-crafted, approachable selections sourced from diverse terroirs and priced...
750ml
Bottle:
$44.80
12 bottles:
$41.80
Featuring more citrus flavors than previous vintages, this medium-bodied Chardonnay has flavors of lemon, lime, white...
1.5Ltr
Bottle:
$22.14
$24.60
6 bottles:
$15.00
The Stone Cellars Chardonnay offers tropical aromas of pineapple, guava and mango. These aromas balance well with...
750ml
Bottle:
$11.31
$12.57
12 bottles:
$9.51
The Stone Cellars Chardonnay offers tropical aromas of pineapple, guava and mango. These aromas balance well with...
750ml
Bottle:
$52.93
$57.20
6 bottles:
$47.21
Matured for 10 months in 35% new French oak, the 2020 Chardonnay Estate opens with savory undertones and flinty...
750ml
Bottle:
$169.94
6 bottles:
$166.54
From a site at an 1,800-foot elevation, this wine is oaky and spiced, with an opening of lush apple, nutmeg and...
Chardonnay United States California
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.