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We look to the Chablis region of France for our inspiration for this wine. It has a soft quality that comes from...
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This Burgundian style Chardonnay offers a bright aroma of fresh Bartlett pears with light vanilla notes. Medium...
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The floral and fruity bouquets of this wine, with mineral and toasty elements, are in harmony with this style of...
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A single vineyard Chardonnay from the Volz Vineyard planted in 1985 named after Konstantin’s daughter Hilda, a...
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The floral and fruity bouquets of this wine, with mineral and toasty elements, are in harmony with this style of...
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Our Chardonnay has pleasant fruit aromas balanced by a long, lingering, dry finish.
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Our Chardonnay has pleasant fruit aromas balanced by a long, lingering, dry finish.
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A Chardonnay fermented in stainless steel that reveals flavors of baked apple, a hint of fig jelly and jasmine, with...
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Fermented and aged in a combination of stainless steel and large format Hungarian oak, the result is a mineral driven...
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A juicy and refreshing, unoaked chardonnay with plenty of honeysuckle, lemon blossom and sliced pear. Light and...
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The bright blackcurrant and white-currant aromas give this light and juicy sauvignon blanc plenty of appeal. For the...
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Juicy, with good yellow apple and pear notes, plus a light zip of chamomile on the finish for freshness. Drink now....
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Fermented and aged in oak, this creamy wine embodies great balance of fruit, butter and a hint of oak. Great paired...
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The fruit for this wine was sourced from a vineyard partner on the North Fork of Long Island. Grown on deltaic...
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A Burgundian-style Chardonnay with abundant aromas of lemon, orange peel, grapefruit and coconut that enhance the...
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Features fresh Anjou pear and yellow apple fruit, mixed with a touch of sweetened butter and a flash of honeysuckle....
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Clean and bright aromas with notes of Empire apple and Asian pear. Flavors of mandarin orange, pear, honeydew melon...
Chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc United States New York
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.
New York state has a wine history which stretches back to the mid-17th century, when Dutch settlers first began cultivating grape vines in the Hudson Valley. Since then, the wine industry of New York has grown from strength to strength, mixing the old with the new as wineries continue to experiment with modern techniques alongside their traditional heritage. Indeed, certain wineries in New York state hold a claim to being amongst the oldest and most well established in the New World, with at least one dating back over three hundred and fifty years. New York state is responsible for a relatively small range of grape varietals, due to its cooler, damper climate, but many varietals such as Riesling and Seyval Blanc thrive in such conditions and produce wines a of singular quality.