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750ml
Bottle:
$14.90
$15.83
12 bottles:
$14.60
Lime juice, chalk, plumeria and peach make for a zippy, yet ripe nose on this bottling. The palate's citrusy core...
750ml
Bottle:
$15.90
$17.50
Light straw in appearance and reveals aromas of lemon, white peach, and jasmine. On the palate, intriguing notes of...
750ml
Bottle:
$15.99
Fragrant nose displays scintillating aromas of pineapple, Asian pear, vanilla
crème and toasted almonds, with notes...
750ml
Bottle:
$35.65
$39.61
6 bottles:
$32.41
Defined by the cooler 2020 vintage, this Chardonnay offers beautiful aromas of pineapple and lemon pie accompanied by...
750ml
Bottle:
$35.65
$39.61
6 bottles:
$32.41
Defined by the cooler 2021 vintage, this Chardonnay offers beautiful aromas of pineapple and lemon pie accompanied by...
750ml
Bottle:
$14.90
$16.66
Foxglove Chardonnay always represents a great value. With this wine you have the richness of fruit from California's...
750ml
Bottle:
$19.38
$20.40
12 bottles:
$16.63
The Intercept Chardonnay is medium-bodied with spiced apples, citrus, and biscuit notes. Rich from barrel...
750ml
Bottle:
$37.66
$40.49
The 2021 Chardonnay is very ripe in style with scents of banana chip, apple pie, jasmine, allspice and brown sugar....
1.5Ltr
Bottle:
$42.00
6 bottles:
$41.16
Limpid straw-yellow. Vibrant, mineral-driven citrus and orchard fruit, honeysuckle, fennel and quinine qualities on...
750ml
Bottle:
$38.00
12 bottles:
$37.24
The 2019 Chardonnay Oceano Spanish Springs Vineyard comes from a cooler site outside of San Luis Obispo that's just a...
750ml
Bottle:
$55.88
Aromas of fresh pear, lime blossom and caramel, with notes of meyer lemon, kiwi skin, fresh churned butter on fresh...
750ml
Bottle:
$23.93
$26.00
Aromas: Asian pear, peach nectar, lemon rind, citrus blossom.
Flavor Profile: Golden delicious apple, crushed rocks,...
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Daou Vineyards Chardonnay Reserve 2018
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$46.20
The 2018 Chardonnay opens with apple pie, baked quince, lemon curd and melon touches with notes of guava, dried hay,...
Chardonnay United States California San Luis Obispo
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.
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.