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Musky apricot pit, peach and spicy vanillin oak on the nose. Densely packed but quite suave and fine-grained in spite...
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$44.00
The color of this wine is best described as pale straw with a slight tint of emerald green. The nose opens as a...
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$35.94
Moving to the four Chardonnays I was able to taste, the 2018 Chardonnay Sonoma Coast reveals a light gold color as...
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
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$91.80
This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
750ml - Case of 6
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This is a generous, layered white with lots of cooked apples and hints of coconut and vanilla. Full body. Phenolic...
750ml
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COLOR: Medium Gold.
NOSE: Pronounced pear and golden yellow apple lined with a floral note of jasmine, apricot, and...
750ml
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$46.50
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$45.57
Stone fruits, buttered citrus, white currants, and brioche all emerge from the 2018 Chardonnay, a beautiful...
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$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...
750ml
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$34.24
The Estate Chardonnay shows great focus, epitomizing nature of the Eden Rift Estate. It is bright with notes of...
750ml
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$57.93
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$56.77
This just takes off at the finish, with bright, tangy acidity and plenty of minerality. Full-bodied and so tangy and...
750ml - Case of 12
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$61.99
Creamy and rich-tasting, with concentrated apple pastry and ripe pear flavors that feature a silky texture. Mineral...
750ml - Case of 12
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Satiny, rich, and complex, with layers of butterscotch, fig, apricot and pear that are impeccably balanced. Bold and...
750ml - Case of 12
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An unusually deep gold color and well-developed, mature aromas and flavors set this wine apart from the crowd, along...
750ml - Case of 12
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$74.93
Aromas are complex with citrus, yeastiness, pear, honey and just a touch of sweet, toasty French oak. Across the...
750ml - Case of 12
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$36.40
The 2018 Chardonnay La Belle Promenade has a nose of golden apples, hazelnuts and bright touches of baker's yeast....
750ml
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$50.40
$56.00
Beautiful apple and crushed stone with white pepper and lemon curd on the nose. Full-bodied with layers of fruit and...
750ml
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$48.00
This elegant wine merges tangy and rich aspects beautifully. It starts with crisp apple and ginger aromas, then...
750ml - Case of 12
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$37.40
A light, bright and sophisticated coastal white, this wine is focused fresh pear and apple, with well-integrated oak...
750ml
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$47.60
Deeply extracted flavors of Meyer lemon, apple and peach are cloaked in lighter touches of new oak. Some 20% of the...
Chardonnay 2018 Chile United States
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.
Chile has a long and rich wine history which dates back to the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th century, who were the first to discover that the wonderful climate and fertile soils of this South American country were ideal for vine cultivation. It has only been in the past forty or fifty years, however, that Chile as a modern wine producing nation has really had an impact on the rest of the world. Generally relatively cheap in price,Whilst being widely regarded as definitively 'New World' as a wine producing country, Chile has actually been cultivating grapevines for wine production for over five hundred years. The Iberian conquistadors first introduced vines to Chile with which to make sacramental wines, and although these were considerably different in everything from flavor, aroma and character to the wines we associate with Chile today, the country has a long and interesting heritage when it comes to this drink. Chilean wine production as we know it first arose in the country in the mid to late 19th century, when wealthy landowners and industrialists first began planting vineyards as a way of adopting some European class and style. They quickly discovered that the hot climate, sloping mountainsides and oceanic winds provided a perfect terroir for quality wines, and many of these original estates remain today in all their grandeur and beauty, still producing the wines which made the country famous.
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.