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750ml
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$17.86
$18.80
6 bottles:
$15.84
“Dolce far niente”. In Italian, the sweetness of doing nothing. This unoaked Chardonnay is a bliss to sip, a...
750ml
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$15.08
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$14.78
This wine offers a clear golden color with an intense nose of familiar citrus and exotic passion fruit and mango. A...
750ml
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$11.94
$12.57
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$9.51
This wine is 100% Chardonnay from selected vineyards in the Galilee region. The wine is fermented at low temperature...
750ml
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$22.94
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$22.48
• Chardonnay.
• Fruit sourced from Dixons Creek, 45 year old planting and dry farmed.
• Fine, silty grey clay...
750ml
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$23.94
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$23.46
Sleek and intense, with mouthwatering yuzu, green apple and pomelo flavors at the core, revealing details of sea...
750ml
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$40.08
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$39.28
A honeycomb sweetness with a hint of oaky caramel leads in this stylish white. It’s broad and ripe, but the apple...
750ml
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$39.67
$44.08
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$36.00
The 2019 Benton-Lane Chardonnay is complex and elegant with bright aromas of unripe tropical green pineapple and...
750ml
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$18.00
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$13.59
Well balanced with mouthwatering fruit and lively acid. Flavors of apple, pear, citrus and apricot. Creamy hints of...
750ml
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$15.38
$17.09
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$13.18
This wine showcases a bouquet of ripe apricot, vanilla beam, and buttered toast. Creamy and mouth-coating, the palate...
1.5Ltr
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$28.84
$30.36
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$19.20
The Beringer Founders’ Estate Chardonnay is the perfect combination of pear, apple and ripe tropical fruit flavors,...
750ml
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$15.10
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$12.37
The Beringer Founders’ Estate Chardonnay is the perfect combination of pear, apple and ripe tropical fruit flavors,...
750ml
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$26.83
$27.59
6 bottles:
$26.29
Mandarin orange, quince and apple blossom with cheese rind, almonds, baking spices and a touch of saline minerality....
1.5Ltr
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$25.81
$27.17
6 bottles:
$16.68
The Basics A wonderfully approachable and refreshing wine. The Taste Full of lush fruit flavors and aromas, the...
750ml
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$12.43
$13.08
The Basics A wonderfully approachable and refreshing wine. The Taste Full of lush fruit flavors and aromas, the...
750ml
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$32.18
$34.60
Golden apple, yellow plums, and a touch of banana peel followed by chamomile tea leaves, hawthorn, browned toast and...
750ml
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$26.71
$29.68
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$24.48
Subtle flavors of pear, apple and white melon make for a pleasant nose on this countywide cuvée. The palate is...
750ml
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$27.69
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$27.14
The 2021 Chardonnay Estate features creamy lime panna cotta, green pear and smoky flint tones on the nose at this...
750ml
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$15.90
$17.50
Light straw in appearance and reveals aromas of lemon, white peach, and jasmine. On the palate, intriguing notes of...
Chardonnay Melon de Bourgogne Muller Thurgau
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.
One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.
Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.