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White
750ml
Bottle: $40.95 $46.80
The 2017 Chardonnay Sangiacomo Vineyards opens with aromas of lemon meringue, popcorn, banana chip and stone fruits...
WA
89
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88
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $42.00 $48.00
The 2021 Pouilly-Fuissé Tête de Cuvée, a blend of different plots, contains slightly more wood maturation than...
VM
89
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $36.83 $42.10
Light yellow robe, intense white flower and almond nose with gourmet toasty notes, ripe citrus fruits revealed in the...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $31.66 $36.18
The idea here is to make a village wine, basically, though it’s sold and marketed as a Gutswein or Estate bottled...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $18.55 $21.20
Teppo can be translated as ‘tempo’ or ‘time.’ This is Riesling that shows the importance of waiting,...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $19.60 $22.40
Woven in with its flavors of blood orange and lemon, Sunrise Hill shows a very mineral straightforward, Sancerre-like...
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Rapid Ship
White
Sale
Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $40.60 $46.40
This is very subtle and complete with cooked lemons and apples and a complement of straw and gunpowder. Full-bodied,...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $42.00 $48.00
The 2019 Chardonnay Martinelli Road is an attractive, easygoing wine to drink now and over the next handful of years....
VM
92
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Rapid Ship
White
375ml
Bottle: $12.60 $15.00
Intense straw yellow eye. The nose is rich and full but is also letting thru pure notes of a salty minerality not...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $29.99 $44.94
Les Pierres is a beautiful, pale straw color with a slightly green hue. This particular vintage is richly aromatic...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $24.50 $28.00
88-91 A slightly riper nose also reflects good Chablis typicity with a bit more iodine character that continues onto...
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Chardonnay Riesling End Bin Wine

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.

Riesling grapes have been grown in and around central Europe for centuries, and over time, they became the lasting symbol of south Germany's ancient and proud wine culture. Whilst the reputation of German wines abroad has in the past been mixed, the Germans themselves take an enormous amount of pride in their wineries, and Riesling grapes have now spread around the globe, growing anywhere with the correct climate in which they can thrive. Riesling grape varietals generally require much cooler climatic conditions than many other white grapes, and they are generally considered to be a very 'terroir expressive' varietal, meaning that the features and characteristics of the terroir they are grown on comes across in the flavors and aromas in the bottle. It is this important feature which has allowed Riesling wines to be elevated into the category of 'fine' white wines, as the features of the top quality bottles are generally considered to be highly unique and offer much to interest wine enthusiasts.