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There's more than meets the eye when it comes to our Chardonnay. A bright twist of lime unfolds into a silky caramel...
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Subtle, discreet oak spice nicely supports citrus and apple flavors. Hints of flint and mineral notes chime in on the...
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Notes of ripe apple and apricot introduce flavors of pear and honeydew with zippy acidity.
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Shimmering in the glass. This Chardonnay has a lot of energy. Hibiscus flower, stone fruit, apple blossom & a touch...
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Our Columbia Valley Chardonnay is crafted in a fresh, soft style with bright apple and sweet citrus fruit character...
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A spry little white, with apple blossom aromas and sleek pear and citrus flavors that fan out on the finish. Drink...
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Sourced from vineyards in the Horse Heaven Hills including our vineyard at Canoe Ridge Estate, our Mimi Chardonnay is...
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This rich Chardonnay showcases fresh tree fruit like apples and pears, with notes of peaches and lemon. Flavors of...
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This Chardonnay opens with intense fresh fruit aromas of apples, pears, and melons, joined by signature characters of...
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Concentrated flavors of ripe melon, apple and pear are accented by a touch of citrus and zippy acidity that brings a...
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This Chardonnay opens with notes of green mango, melon and white flowers which are complemented by smoky mineral...
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A warm season allowed our grapes to achieve optimum ripeness. The wine exhibits apple, pear, and pineapple notes with...
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Flavors of creamy pastry over caramelized zesty fruit are enhanced by a full body and velvety texture.
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Fruit for this wine comes from one of the best white-wine vineyards in the state. The aromas are interesting for the...
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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...
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Aromas of creamy apply backed by citrus introduce mouth-filling, sumptuous flavors of peach and ripe Asian pear,...
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The wine's lemon drop hard candy, honeycomb and melting candle wax aromas are a great start. Poached pear and lemon...
Chardonnay Ice Wine Savatiano United States Washington State Columbia Valley
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.
Savatiano is probably Greece's most well known and most widely grown grape varietal, as it is the primary grape used in the production of Retsina, where the fermenting juices of the Savatiano varietal are flavored with pine resin in order to make this distinctive and famous wine. One of the reasons for the wide cultivation of this grape is due to its hardiness, and resistance to drought conditions. In the sun-drenched and dry, rocky Greek landscapes, this makes it an ideal vine to grow for wine-makers who require a strong and bounteous yield each year.
However, there are plenty of examples of Greek white wines which use the Savatiano grape but withhold from the addition the pine resin flavoring, allowing the true characteristics of this varietal to shine through. The result is often very pleasing indeed, with Savatiano grapes generally producing extremely well balanced and rounded white wines, with a juicily fruity flavor. Their aromas can vary quite a lot, with many Savatiano wines bearing the fragrance of citrus fruits, and also occasionally having a strong floral aroma reminiscent of elder and rose. Due to the relatively low acidity of Savatiano grapes, the wines which use them (including Retsina) generally bolster themselves with the addition of smaller quantities of more acidic varieties, such as Assyrtiko or Rhoditis, in order to improve their sometimes weak structure.
Additional Information on Greek Wines
Greek Wines
Ancient Greek Wines – A Brief History of Wine in Greece
The Myth of Dionysus, Greek God of Wine
What is Retsina?
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.