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Fermented in stainless steel, this is a pretty wine, with a darker tint of pinkish-orange color. Tangy peach and lime...
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COLOR: Medium Gold.
NOSE: Pronounced pear and golden yellow apple lined with a floral note of jasmine, apricot, and...
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Packed with pear, apple and citrus aromas and shows exceptional depth and body. Offers rich flavors of green apple...
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The 2017 Chardonnay Estate opens with notes of toast, cream, lemon pith and hay over a core of Red Delicious apple...
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The nose blossoms with guava and grapefruit. The palate is crisp with stone fruit, Meyer lemon and spice. Bright and...
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Mellow, intricately blended spices, butter, toast and generous fruit flavors give this wine a pleasing, rich...
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The wine was fermented in 50% French oak barrels, with the balance in stainless steel tanks. The wine went through...
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The 2022 Chardonnay Olivet Ranch is subtle, understated and quite classy. Light tropical notes, jasmine, tangerine...
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Aromas are complex with citrus, yeastiness, pear, honey and just a touch of sweet, toasty French oak. Across the...
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Aromas are complex with citrus, yeastiness, pear, honey and just a touch of sweet, toasty French oak. Across the...
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The color on this Chardonnay shows an elegant light golden straw hue. With aromas of crisp apple, citrus, lemon zest,...
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This fragrant version shows jasmine, orange blossom, toasted sesame seed and green cardamom notes alongside a core of...
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Distinct aromas of citrus blossoms, fresh-cut tart green apples and hints of grapefruit peel. Full and richly layered...
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Mid straw in color with aromas of baked pear, caramel, hazelnut, honey and a touch of melon and graphite. The palate...
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A vibrant and pure Chardonnay with great energy, the medium gold 2021 Chardonnay Three Jacks Vineyard is lifted with...
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COLOR: Straw.
AROMA: Exhibits aromas of Granny Smith Apple and Stone fruits with spice.
TASTE: Good entrance, complex...
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This elegant wine merges tangy and rich aspects beautifully. It starts with crisp apple and ginger aromas, then...
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Vivacious and sleek, with handsome Meyer lemon, apricot and blanched almond flavors that speed along the snappy...
Chardonnay Mencia Sauvignon Blanc United States California Sonoma Valley 750ml 12 Ship Free Items
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.
The green skinned grapes of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal had their origins in Southern France, where they are still widely grown and used for many of the excellent young and aged white wines the region is famous for. Today, however, they are grown in almost every wine producing country in the world, and are widely revered for their fresh and grassy flavors, full of tropical notes and refreshing, zesty character. Sauvignon Blanc grapes thrive best in moderate climates, and ripen relatively early in the year. This has made them a favorite for many wineries in the New World, where they can still produce healthy and high yields in the earlier part of the summer before the temperatures become too hot. Too much heat has a massively adverse effect on Sauvignon Blanc, as the grapes become dull in their flavor, and the wine produced from them loses all its unique character and high points. As such, Sauvignon Blanc farmers have had a lot of trouble from global warming and climate change, as they are being forced to harvest their crops increasingly earlier in the year when it is cool enough to do so.
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.
California's beautiful and remarkably fertile Sonoma Valley has grown over the decades to become one of the United States' most respected and profitable wine regions, with wineries within the region benefiting from the superb Californian sunshine, low rainfall and wonderfully rich soils. Because of this vital combination of excellent conditions, the region is able to grow a wide range of grape varietals for use in the production of an impressive array of wines, with many different red and white wine grapes flourishing each year and producing excellent and characterful results. The soils have been enriched by volcanic activity, and the presence of geothermal springs, which make this region a unique one, and very much the beating heart of California's ever growing wine industry.