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750ml
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$13.58
$14.30
12 bottles:
$11.40
Balancing crisp fruit flavors of peach, apricot, and green apple with hints of tropical fruit and vanilla. Food...
750ml
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$22.95
12 bottles:
$22.49
100% Chardonnay from Hawkeye vineyard in Mendocino County. Organically farmed. Natural yeast fermentation occurred in...
750ml
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$11.87
$12.50
12 bottles:
$7.60
A nose of apples and pears. Elegant flavors of rich fig, honey, and vanilla.
750ml
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$38.98
12 bottles:
$38.20
Rated 97 in 2016, 2014 not rated.
750ml
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$58.88
$63.00
12 bottles:
$58.71
Powerfully ripe yet racy and thrilling with acidity, this deeply concentrated Chardonnay exhibits a masterful balance...
750ml
Bottle:
$21.49
$24.00
Complex and distinctive, with pear, nectarine and Honeycrisp apple flavors, salted melon accents and a savory note of...
750ml
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$54.60
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$53.51
Mount Veeder Napa Valley Chardonnay offers notes of ripe golden orchard fruit, fresh banana and pineapple, and a hint...
750ml
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$16.06
$17.85
12 bottles:
$11.52
This wine is made with the thought of coming home from work, putting your feet up, and relaxing with a refreshing...
750ml
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$37.66
$40.49
The 2021 Chardonnay is very ripe in style with scents of banana chip, apple pie, jasmine, allspice and brown sugar....
375ml
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$11.35
$12.61
12 bottles:
$7.83
Aromas of baked apple, mango, nutmeg and flint. It’s medium-to full-bodied with crisp acidity and creamy, ripe...
750ml
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$16.73
$18.59
12 bottles:
$14.83
Skyside Chardonnay 2020 shows beautiful aromas of honeysuckle, bright citrus notes of Meyer lemon and mandarin orange...
750ml
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$45.35
$50.39
A classic expression of unfiltered Chardonnay; this rich powerful wine opens with rich creme caramel, butterscotch...
750ml
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$26.71
$29.68
12 bottles:
$23.55
Shows juicy yellow apple, Asian pear and lemon zest notes that are mouthwatering and fresh, gaining complexity from...
750ml
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$55.80
$62.00
Inviting citrus blossom and melon aromas entice the nose and open onto a palate filled with full flavors of pear,...
750ml
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$19.15
$21.28
12 bottles:
$14.65
This white wine shows aromas of clean linen, citrus flower and a burst of pineapple. The palate follows with flavors...
750ml
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$14.99
$16.66
This Chard has flavors of melon, citrus fruit, apples and a slight bit of tropical fruit with crisp, refreshing acidity.
750ml - Case of 12
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$13.26
Nice apple and melon character with hints of crushed stone. Medium body. Crisp and clean. Real chardonnay. Dry. Drink...
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.