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A straightforward white, with fruit cocktail flavors and a short finish. Drink now. 6,000 cases made.
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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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Bright and citrusy with a lemon-rind scent and broader, more apple like flavors, this wine’s texture, with its...
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Grapefruit pith, flint, roasted almonds and toasted lemons here. It’s medium-bodied, flinty and gently toasty with...
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Slightly more expensive, the 2019 Chardonnay A26 is cut from the same cloth as the Mountain Select release yet offers...
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Forward with punchy reduction on opening, the 2019 Chardonnay Willamette Valley pours a bright medium straw color and...
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Stylish and elegant, there's juicy peach, citrus and melon flavors with accents of lemon blossom, a crushed rock...
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The 2019 Benton-Lane Chardonnay is complex and elegant with bright aromas of unripe tropical green pineapple and...
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This fruit driven Chardonnay bursts with ripe green apple, pear and stone fruit. Our Chardonnay has good texture and...
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Given eight months in stainless steel, this light, bright white presents as clean and linear. It has focused acidity...
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Ripe white fruit and spice flavors show pastry accents, with biscuit notes on the finish. Drink now. 12,824 cases made.
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Lifted aromas of tropical mango and pineapple, with creamy hints of crème brûlée and caramel. Rich, round flavors...
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Elegant and fragrant, this lovely white opens with aromas of white orchard fruit, bread dough, vanilla and toasted...
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Enticing aromas of buttercream, cake batter and macadamia nut are clean and light on the nose of this bottling. The...
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This Chardonnay showcases the brilliance of Eden Rift’s mountain estate. It is bright with notes of exotic citrus,...
750ml - Case of 12
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Presents an impressive beam of purity, a generous core of juicy tangerine, green apple and lemon curd as well as a...
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Aromas of tropical fruit, citrus and red apple with delicious notes of butterscotch and honey highlight this rich yet...
Chardonnay 2012 2019 Italy United States 750ml
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.
There are few countries in the world with a viticultural history as long or as illustrious as that claimed by Italy. Grapes were first being grown and cultivated on Italian soil several thousand years ago by the Greeks and the Pheonicians, who named Italy 'Oenotria' – the land of wines – so impressed were they with the climate and the suitability of the soil for wine production. Of course, it was the rise of the Roman Empire which had the most lasting influence on wine production in Italy, and their influence can still be felt today, as much of the riches of the empire came about through their enthusiasm for producing wines and exporting it to neighbouring countries. Since those times, a vast amount of Italian land has remained primarily for vine cultivation, and thousands of wineries can be found throughout the entire length and breadth of this beautiful country, drenched in Mediterranean sunshine and benefiting from the excellent fertile soils found there. Italy remains very much a 'land of wines', and one could not imagine this country, its landscape and culture, without it.
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.