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$19.90
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This is a tasty chardonnay showing pastries, stone fruit and salted nuts on the nose. It’s full-bodied, creamy and...
750ml
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$15.38
$17.09
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$13.18
A combination of oak and stainless-steel fermentation delivers the classic bright flavors of Washington State with...
750ml
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$18.09
$20.10
LUKE Chardonnay is 100% Evergreen Vineyard, hailed as one of Washington’s signature white wine vineyards....
750ml
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$41.80
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$38.95
The wine's lemon drop hard candy, honeycomb and melting candle wax aromas are a great start. Poached pear and lemon...
750ml
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$13.65
$15.17
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$12.36
Chardonnay is smooth, rich and balanced. With flavors of fresh tropical fruits, honey, ripe citrus and vanilla, this...
750ml
Bottle:
$24.00
12 bottles:
$21.28
Apple and flint aromas with some green-pear skin follow through to a medium to full body. Lightly cooked fruit on the...
750ml
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$10.92
$12.13
This shows aromas of ripe peaches, green mangoes, dried citrus peel, flowers and crushed stones. Polished and...
750ml
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$14.41
$15.17
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$12.36
Washington- This fruit-forward wine presents aromas and flavors of peaches and cream, melon and apricot cobbler with...
750ml
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$12.87
$14.30
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$11.40
750ml
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$15.44
$16.25
12 bottles:
$12.35
This Chardonnay delicately blends the aromas and flavors of fresh green apple and lemon zest with notes of...
750ml
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$13.98
12 bottles:
$13.70
Aromas of ripe pear, lemon, and green apple. Pleasant and bright in the mouth, it features a classic expression of...
Chardonnay United States Washington State 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.
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.
Since it began in the 1820s, wine-production in Washington state has gone from strength to strength, with many of the finest United States wines coming out over the past twenty years hailing from this region. Today, the state is the second largest US producer of wines, behind California, with over forty thousand acres under vine. The state itself is split into two distinct wine regions, separated by the Cascade Range, which casts an important rain shadow over much of the area. As such, the vast majority of vines are grown and cultivated in the dry, arid desert-like area in the eastern half of the state, with the western half producing less than one percent of the state's wines where it is considerably wetter. Washington state is famed for producing many of the most accessible wines of the country, with Merlot and Chardonnay varietal grapes leading the way, and much experimentation with other varietals characterizing the state's produce in the twenty-first century.