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Our Butterkissed Chardonnay is a rich, decadent take on a timeless varietal. We grow our grapes in the sun-drenched...
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Impressive for the bright, fresh core of pineapple, honeysuckle and tangerine flavors, with a touch of dried lemon...
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Fragrant nose displays scintillating aromas of pineapple, Asian pear, vanilla
crème and toasted almonds, with notes...
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Dark Horse Buttery Chardonnay highlights the same full-bodied, oaky taste profile found in the world’s top...
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Invite affordable luxury to your dinner table with this crisp classic. With welcoming pineapple aromas, this winning...
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This wine has inviting orange blossom and honey aromas with a hint of rich crème brûlée. On the palate, lush...
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Graceful, pure and polished, this enticing Chardonnay offers tantalizing aromas of green apple, nectarine and candied...
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(#37 Top 100, 2023) Offers grilled pineapple, white peach and lemon blossom notes that are robust and effortless on a...
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This stunning wine leaps out of the glass, with concentrated flavors and aromas of white peach, quince and pineapple,...
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District 7 Chardonnay is a focused, elegant wine that strikes the perfect balance between rich and refreshing. Aromas...
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Rich and complex, with notes of salted hazelnut, fresh lemon curd, tangerine and Honeycrisp apple, showing a...
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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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The 2020 Chardonnay Estate is a big step up from the 2019. Lemon confit, apricot, ginger and light tropical notes...
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Aromas
• Bright lemon citrus & curd and honeysuckle floral notes
• A hint of spice and pie crust
• Delicate...
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.