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$93.48
$98.40
A very pretty rosé with dried-strawberry and apple aromas and flavors. Some spiced-pear and iron undertones....
750ml - Case of 12
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$272.24
Based on a solera system of reserve wines, this oak-aged Champagne shows considerable maturity while keeping a sense...
750ml - Case of 6
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$352.75
Pale gold color. The bouquet has notes of ripe peach and apricot. On the palate, this wine is broad and rich with...
750ml
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$108.95
$118.39
A quietly elegant Champagne, with a lovely soft, laciness to texture, and a minerally underpinning of smoke and...
750ml
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$138.94
$152.80
Expressive notes of steeped raspberry and cherry fruit pull you into the glass of this vivacious rose Champagne,...
750ml - Case of 6
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$154.90
Bright straw-yellow in color with a golden sheen. A highly delicate nose of rare intensity, in which the fruity aroma...
750ml
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$82.94
12 bottles:
$81.28
750ml
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$115.94
The SCHLOSS GOBELSBURG VINTAGE is only produced in special years. The bottles remain on the lees for at least 10...
750ml
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$289.94
$305.20
From an excellent vintage and on lees for over six years, this exceptional bubbly is also England's most expensive...
750ml
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$33.67
12 bottles:
$33.00
Brilliant yellow. Pungent, mineral-accented Meyer lemon and pear nectar scents show very good clarity and hints of...
750ml
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$65.20
6 bottles:
$64.00
#54 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022. This is a vibrant and beautifully crafted blanc de blancs. Aromas of lemon, pear and green...
750ml
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$82.84
12 bottles:
$81.18
A lip-smacking Champagne, with a creamy mousse, this has a nutty overtone that enriches flavors of black cherry,...
750ml
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$31.58
12 bottles:
$30.95
For this excellent blend, 25% new French oak was employed. It retains its vivid apple-flavored intensity, while...
750ml
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$149.94
$159.90
This is a Champagne which should be tasted for its own qualities as an aperitif, to accompany poultry with morels,...
Champagne Blend Chardonnay 2010 2014 750ml
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
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.