Chardonnay
Just as Cabernet sauvignon has become the most popular high-quality red-wine grape, Chardonnay has taken the lead for the first-class white wine grapes and with even greater passion.
Chardonnay Styles
Chardonnay runs the whole gamut style-wise. On one end you have the crisp, fruity, acidic chardonnay-oak barrels didn't get anywhere near this during the fermentation process.
Chardonnay
Rich is the word that best both describes Chardonnay and explains its popularity. Its aroma is distinct, yet delicate, difficult to characterize, easier to recognize. It often smells like apples, lemons, peaches or tropical fruits.
Chardonnay is a good-yielding variety that buds early in the season and also ripens relatively early, with its thin skin making it susceptible to rot from early rains.
Chardonnay has served as parent to several French-American hybrid grapes, as well as crossings with other Vitis vinifera varieties.
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Chardonnay is the most famous grape-variety throughout the world. For several centuries it has been the only grape used for white Bourgogne. It is also one of the main variety used in the elaboration of Champagne.
Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used to make a white varietal wine.
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If you love Chardonnay because it's soft, low in acid, tropically aromatic and lush with butter and spicy oak, you may find that you hate Muscadet.
CHARDONNAY (White) [shar-dun-NAY]
As Cabernet Sauvignon is the king of reds, so is Chardonnay the king of white wines, for it makes consistently excellent, rich and complex whites.
Chardonnay is the great grape of the white Burgundies of France. It is also the grape of many expensive (and highly oaked) California wines. It is also one of the wines of choice for the Power Yuppie.
Chardonnay
(shar-du-NAY)
Grown in most parts of the wine growing world, Chardonnay is fairly neutral on its own, displaying green apple and mineral notes.
CHARDONNAY: This grape is the best-known white wine grape grown in France and is more correctly known as the same Pinot Chardonnay grape widely grown in the Champagne region.
CHARDONNAY [Shar-dun-NAY]
This variety is the best-known white-wine producer grown in France. The Chardonnay vine is widely planted in the Burgundy and Chablis regions.
Chardonnay
The grower loves to grow it, the winemaker loves to fashion it, and we love to drink it. The great white grape variety of Central France, makes Champagne, Chablis, White Burgundy and the Maconnais wines.
Chardonnay - Chardonnay is one of the most popular white grape varieties in America, as well as the white grape of the Burgundy region of France.
Chardonnay: Richer fish dishes call for weightier wines and many California and Australian chardonnays fit the bill nicely. It's best to avoid overly oaky styles, as they can overpower the fish. See our selection of Chardonnay wines ...
Chardonnay Review: Franciscan Oakville
Generally speaking, I'm against the majority of California Chardonnay on the market - but not against ALL California Chards.
Chardonnay
Often called the "King of the White Varietals," Chardonnay has never been more popular among wine consumers. When crisp, bright and judiciously oaked, Chardonnay lives up to its royal title.
Chardonnay
Origin: A traditional variety grown in Moravia and Bohemia. It covers about 3,4 % of vineyards in the Czech Republic and tends to increase.
Chardonnay: This is a fresh, fruity grape grown in Burgundy, Champagne, California, Australia, and South Africa. Chardonnay wine tends to taste like fruits - melon, peach, etc. - and also many have an oaky flavor.
Chardonnay
AKA
Feinburgunder and Morillon or Aubaine, Auvernat, Beaunois, Epinette Blanche, Petite Sainte-Marie Melon Blanc and Weisser Clevner ...
Chardonnay
[Petite-Ste-Marie]
Producer of the finest dry whites, full bodied, richly flavoured and capable of great complexity. Can be fresh and minerally, nutty and mellow, or lively and tropical.
Chardonnay: Depending on how it is made. Chardonnay can have flavours like rip apples, pineapples, mangoes, pears, peaches, melons, vanilla, butter, or caramel. Can be blended with French Colombard, Chenin Blanc.
CHARDONNAY
A noble white-wine grape grown in France, widely planted in the Burgundy, Chablis and Champagne regions of France, the Pacific Northwest, Australia and New Zealand. In the Champagne region it is known as the Pinot Chardonnay grape.
Chardonnay: This grape is exceedingly popular and wide spread. French white burgundy is a chardonnay wine, as is much champagne. While dry, these wines are full-bodied, often because they are aged in oak.
Chardonnay (wide variations; vanilla, tropical fruit, nuts, subtle apples and butter) ...
Chardonnay (shar-doh-nay)
One of the most popular and important white grapes in the world. It is at home in the Burgundy region of France, and found throughout the New World.
Chardonnay - Chardonnay is a white wine which can range from clean and crisp with a hint of varietal flavor to rich and complex oak-aged wines. Chardonnay typically balances fruit, acidity and texture.
Chardonnay. Great white grape of Burgundy. No. 1 "varietal" wine in America.
Chenin Blanc. Fine grape for dry and sweet wines. Sometimes used in U.S. to mean "cheap white," but sometimes a fine varietal.
Chardonnay: Arguably the best and most widely planted white wine grape in the world.
Château: French for "castle;" an estate with its own vineyards.
Chenin Blanc: A white grape common in the Loire Valley of France.
Chardonnay - A type of wine, one of the "noble" white varietals.
Charmat process - The Charmat or bulk process is a method where sparkling wines receive their secondary fermentation in large tanks, ...
Chardonnay
A popular and versatile grape that thrives in most wine-growing countries. Aromas range from lemon to apple to tropical fruit. It adapts well to oak, which adds scents of vanilla, butter and spice.
Chardonnay, This grape perhaps came from the Lebanon as Obaideh and almost definitely took its European name from the Maconnais village in Burgundy of the same name. Nearly always fruity but can be acidic when unripe.
Chardonnay. One of the most popular white grape varieties in America and throughout the New World, as well as the white grape of the Burgundy region of France.
Chardonnay: Dry white table wine resembling Chablis but made from Chardonnay grapes. Arguably the best and most widely planted white wine grape in the world.
Chardonnay
A white grape variety considered one of the worlds finest. Widely planted and used both for dry, barrel-aged table wines as well as blends for fine sparkling wines.
Chardonnay
Synonyms
Formerly sometimes known as Pinot Chardonnay in Australia. In France there have been many apparent synonyms leading to confusion about the true variety.
Chardonnay
This popular and versatile grape thrives in many different climates so the wine is produced in many parts of the world. The wine can be soft and subtle or rich, buttery and full-bodied.
CHARDONNAY
The worlds most popular white grape varieties. Very easy to enjoy thanks to its full, round body and buttery, appley flavors laced with toastiness.
CHARACTER
A wine with refined, distinguishing qualities.
Chardonnay: This is clearly the world's greatest white wine grape variety. Chardonnay produces many of the finest white wines, both still and sparkling, all around the globe.
The Chardonnay Coming From the Cold
Chablis is the most northern wine area of Burgundy and it is located about 200 kilometers north-west (about 125 miles) from Cõte d'Or.
CHARDONNAY: (aka Feinburgunder and Morillon in Austria). This variety is the best-known white wine grape grown in France and is also known as Pinot Chardonnay, an invented synonym name for the benefit of Anglo/American consumers, ...
Chardonnay:
The Primary White grape of Burgundy, also well known for its California incarnations.
Chardonnay was the least affected by the chaotic weather and uneven ripening and is the most consistent in terms of ripeness.
Chardonnay: Rootstock from the U.S; golden to amber; fruit aromas of apple, pear, bananas.
Chenin Blanc: Ideal grape for hot areas; good acidity and flavor; compatible for blending. Argentina's grape of the future.
Chardonnay (Australia or California)
Huîtres de Marennes
Muscadet / Bourgogne Aligoté (White Burgundy) / Alsace Sylvaner / Chablis / Beaujolais Primeur Rouge ...
Chardonnay - cool climate: tropical fruit, citrus fruit in slightly warmer climes and melon in warm regions. With increasing proportion of malolactic fermentation, Chardonnay loses green apple and takes on creamy notes, Apple, pear, peach, apricot ...
Use Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc as the white wine in the basket. If you select Chardonnay, the variety of foods your set may have is broader.
Our Chardonnay is planted at the highest elevation on the property. Because of the steep mountainsides, some parts of this vineyard are terraced to accommodate tractor work.
Compared Riedel Chardonnay®, Riedel Burgundy® and the standard international
tasting glass (ISO)
Assessed the fruit intensity, degree of volatility and overall intensity of a red and
white wine.
A wine based on Chardonnay will often begin its life tasting quite austere, rich in acidity, with little in the way of character of aroma or flavour at all.
$ White - Benziger Chardonnay
$ Red - Bonterra Zinfandel
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(new) Balloons: Chardonnay-based wines, especially those from cooler climates, often give off the smell you experience upon opening a bag of balloons and smelling the powder that separates them.
barrel-fermentedSome white wines, notably Chardonnay, may be fermented in barrels rather than in stainless steel to impart a subtle oak character. barriqueSmall French oak barrel.
: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Gamay, etc. Chardonnay white grape variety which accounts for almost all white wine production in Burgundy. Climat named and delimited plot of wine-growing land, equivalent of a Bordeaux cru.
Common among chardonnay, especially new world.
Character: A wine with top-notch distinguishing qualities.
Chewy: Describes rich, heavy, tannic wines that are full-bodied.
Barrel-fermented wines, usually white and often Chardonnays, have been fermented in oak containers. Fermenting wines in oak barrels tends to impart a more subtle oak character than simply aging them in oak barrels.
CHARDONNAY
White Burgundian Type of vine of quality, also cultivated in other areas and around the world, in particular out of Champagne and Franche-Comté. It gives fine wine and of a good aptitude for ageing.
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