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750ml
Bottle: $12.76 $13.43
12 bottles: $10.45
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750ml
Bottle: $44.69 $46.00
The wine is plush and enveloping, and yet like all of Jim Clendenen's wines, it also remains light on its feet. Hints...
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750ml
Bottle: $13.87 $15.41
12 bottles: $11.75
A fuller-bodied Chardonnay with notes of lemon, lime, green apple, chamomile, white peaches and cream, matchstick...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $16.88
12 bottles: $16.54
Our Seven Ranchlands Chardonnay is alluring with plenty of ripe fruit aromatics and flavors such as apple, lemon,...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $26.41 $27.80
6 bottles: $18.34
As fragrant as a stroll through a summertime farmers market, our bright and juicy Chardonnay beckons with aromas of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.58 $14.30
12 bottles: $11.40
As fragrant as a stroll through a summertime farmers market, our bright and juicy Chardonnay beckons with aromas of...
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White
750ml
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12 bottles: $10.45
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White
750ml
Bottle: $13.94 $14.91
Accents of flint and white pepper play off the tasty lemon, vanilla and green apple flavors of this medium-bodied,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.73
12 bottles: $21.30
COLOR: Light straw. NOSE: Very tropical: pineapple, coconut, also granny smith apple and lime. FLAVOR: Minimal...
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1.5Ltr
Bottle: $23.37 $24.60
6 bottles: $15.00
Rich and creamy, this wine exhibits a complex bouquet of rich oak, spice, pear, and vanilla that complements a full...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.35 $13.00
12 bottles: $9.98
Rich and creamy, this wine exhibits a complex bouquet of rich oak, spice, pear, and vanilla that complements a full...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $55.93 $57.60
12 bottles: $51.30
Mellow, intricately blended spices, butter, toast and generous fruit flavors give this wine a pleasing, rich...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $34.94
12 bottles: $34.24
This complex white wine is light golden in color, with lemon blossom, mandarin, and pink lady apple aromas. The...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $42.94 $47.60
6 bottles: $42.08
This complex white wine is light golden in color, with lemon blossom, mandarin, and pink lady apple aromas. The...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.99
Refined and open-textured, with a buttery and toasty allure to the airy blend of white fruit and spice flavors. The...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $20.71 $21.80
6 bottles: $12.57
"The Copper Ridge Chardonnay showcases ripe tree fruit with notes of pineapple and mango. The wine is enhanced with...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.76 $12.38
12 bottles: $7.49
"The Copper Ridge Chardonnay showcases ripe tree fruit with notes of pineapple and mango. The wine is enhanced with...
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White
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $21.09 $22.20
6 bottles: $13.00
This Chardonnay is medium bodied, brimming with crisp apples and pears. Enjoy its smooth finish with grilled seafood,...
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750ml
Bottle: $14.55
12 bottles: $14.26
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Bottle: $35.20
Aromas of red apples and pear are followed by a lively blend of tropical fruit and citrus flavors. Striking the...
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Chardonnay United States California

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.