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1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle:
$91.80
This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
1.5Ltr
Bottle:
$42.00
6 bottles:
$41.16
Limpid straw-yellow. Vibrant, mineral-driven citrus and orchard fruit, honeysuckle, fennel and quinine qualities on...
1.5Ltr
Bottle:
$72.68
$80.76
6 bottles:
$69.60
Crisp and chalky on the nose, this appellation blend offers aromas of grapefruit peel, white-fleshed fruits and a...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$219.95
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$902.95
$909.30
Fragrant, this white delivers forthcoming aromas of seashore, hazelnut, peach and white flowers. It's creamy and...
1.5Ltr - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$455.23
There is a creaminess to the texture in this white, whose profile borders on broad and muscular. Apple, lemon and...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$277.78
Characterized by its finesse, this wine is quite reserved in its youth. It develops a mineral structure and powerful,...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$517.95
Lime blossom, hazelnut, peach, citronella and toasty oak combine in this alluring white. Seamless in balance, builds...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$119.95
Champs Martin faces south and is one of the warmer white wines sites in Mercurey, producing a correspondingly richer...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$233.95
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$298.62
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$929.61
Revisited from bottle, the 2018 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru has turned out very well indeed, unwinding in the glass...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$420.95
Etienne de Montille sources his Corton-Charlemagne from a single parcel in the Les Pougets climat in Aloxe-Corton,...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$372.95
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
Bottle:
$212.95
Pungent aromas of green fruit, citrus peel, matchstick and once again a whiff of the phenolic can be found on the...
Grenache Chardonnay 2018 1.5Ltr
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.
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.