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Bottle: $15.44 $16.25
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There's more than meets the eye when it comes to our Chardonnay. A bright twist of lime unfolds into a silky caramel...
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Bottle: $39.94
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Musky apricot pit, peach and spicy vanillin oak on the nose. Densely packed but quite suave and fine-grained in spite...
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White
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Bottle: $34.69
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Bright straw-yellow. Rather wild scents of peach pit, strawberry, lime peel, hazelnut and musky lees. Rich and dense...
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750ml
Bottle: $12.94 $13.87
Subtle, discreet oak spice nicely supports citrus and apple flavors. Hints of flint and mineral notes chime in on the...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.24 $17.09
12 bottles: $13.18
Notes of ripe apple and apricot introduce flavors of pear and honeydew with zippy acidity.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.24 $17.09
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Shimmering in the glass. This Chardonnay has a lot of energy. Hibiscus flower, stone fruit, apple blossom & a touch...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $8.99
Our Columbia Valley Chardonnay is crafted in a fresh, soft style with bright apple and sweet citrus fruit character...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $18.36 $20.40
12 bottles: $16.63
A spry little white, with apple blossom aromas and sleek pear and citrus flavors that fan out on the finish. Drink...
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Bottle: $16.12 $17.91
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750ml
Bottle: $10.99
Sourced from vineyards in the Horse Heaven Hills including our vineyard at Canoe Ridge Estate, our Mimi Chardonnay is...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.87 $12.50
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.64 $15.41
12 bottles: $11.52
This Chardonnay opens with intense fresh fruit aromas of apples, pears, and melons, joined by signature characters of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.58 $14.30
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Concentrated flavors of ripe melon, apple and pear are accented by a touch of citrus and zippy acidity that brings a...
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750ml
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This Chardonnay opens with notes of green mango, melon and white flowers which are complemented by smoky mineral...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.75
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A warm season allowed our grapes to achieve optimum ripeness. The wine exhibits apple, pear, and pineapple notes with...
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White
750ml
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Flavors of creamy pastry over caramelized zesty fruit are enhanced by a full body and velvety texture.
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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.64 $15.41
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The Chardonnay reveals juicy apple and pear on the nose with lemon meringue pie, creamy vanilla oak, and toast. A...
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750ml
Bottle: $17.94
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Fruit for this wine comes from one of the best white-wine vineyards in the state. The aromas are interesting for the...
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750ml
Bottle: $19.90 $20.80
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This is a tasty chardonnay showing pastries, stone fruit and salted nuts on the nose. It’s full-bodied, creamy and...
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Chardonnay United States Washington State

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.

Since it began in the 1820s, wine-production in Washington state has gone from strength to strength, with many of the finest United States wines coming out over the past twenty years hailing from this region. Today, the state is the second largest US producer of wines, behind California, with over forty thousand acres under vine. The state itself is split into two distinct wine regions, separated by the Cascade Range, which casts an important rain shadow over much of the area. As such, the vast majority of vines are grown and cultivated in the dry, arid desert-like area in the eastern half of the state, with the western half producing less than one percent of the state's wines where it is considerably wetter. Washington state is famed for producing many of the most accessible wines of the country, with Merlot and Chardonnay varietal grapes leading the way, and much experimentation with other varietals characterizing the state's produce in the twenty-first century.