| Chardonnay | Price | Desc |
|---|---|---|
 | 7.99 | Redbank 2004 Long Paddock Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Redbank from Australia. Exceptional value in Chardonnay. The Long Paddock Chardonnay 2004 displays a complex aroma of peach and melon with some citrus notes. The balanced and mouthfilling palate is driven by fresh fruits and given layers of complexity from the oak and malolactic, finishing with toast and creaminess. This wine can be enjoyed with many foods, such as fresh seafood or creamy risotto. |
 | 7.99 | Oxford Landing 2008 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Oxford Landing from South Australia, Australia. Pale gold with vibrant green hues, the 2008 Oxford Landing Chardonnay has lifted aromas of fresh peaches, citrus and honeydew melons with an underlying hint of nougat and nutmeg spice. The wine had an even textured palate with stone fruit, green tropical and citrus flavours. The fine, creamy texture, is a result of extended lees contact after fermentation, and is balanced off by a refreshing acidity and lingering citrus peel flavours on the finish. |
 | 8.49 | Canyon Road 2005 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Canyon Road from California. This Chardonnay displays a pale golden color and classic aromas of melon, butterscotch and honey. On the palate, tropical fruit flavors are complemented by ripe melon and a soft, creamy texture. The balanced acidity is showcased by flavors of stone fruit and tart green apple. This wine is a natural complement to many foods, especially main dishes like chicken or fish prepared with light sauces featuring lemon, cream or fresh herbs. |
 | 8.49 | Smoking Loon 2008 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Smoking Loon from California. Creamy, bright aromas of vanilla bean poached pear and fresh brioche bread waft out of the glass, with a slight hint of nutmeg in the background. Full of flavor on the palate, Meyer lemon, caramel apple, and smoky vanilla oak are all tightly intertwined. The four unique California appellations in this blend contribute balanced citrus acidity, fruit avor, and oak nuance to this Chardonnay. A touch of tangerine peel shows on the mid-palate, while lemon meringue lingers in the complex finish. Medium-bodied overall, 75% of this wine went through malolactic fermentation before aging for 9 months on the lees of the grapes for added depth and roundness. The mellow acidity and balance of toast and citrus in this Chardonnay make it a great wine to stand alone or pair nicely with food. A chicken sandwich with grilled pineapple would complement this wine well, as would a Caesar salad with grilled shrimp. For people who appreciate wine without the pretense, Smoking Loon is the full-bodied California varietal wine that celebrates independent character and a Bohemian personality by going beyond a single plot of land or a chateau, to explore the best vineyards in each vintage through our negociant relationships. |
 | 8.79 | Laboure Roi 2003 Les Sangliers Chardonnay Reserve - White Wine White Wine by Laboure Roi from Burgundy, France - regions. The grape of white Burgundy and Champagne is now grown with great success all over the world. It is remarkably adaptable to soil and climate, and will always produce a wine with fine rounded fruit that is balanced by good acidity. Whereas in Burgundy wines made from Chardonnay may need several years to be at their best, wines from the Midi show their fruit early and should be drunk within two years of the vintage. Color Pale yellow with a touch of gold Bouquet Rounded, melony fruit with a touch of pineapple Taste Ripe, soft fruit flavours, but a firm finish Alcohol 12.5 Serving Suggestions Serve cold but not iced, around 50 Farenheit. Drink with hors d'oeuvres, all sorts of fish, pasta, poultry and white meats, creamy cheeses. |
 | 8.79 | Columbia Crest 2003 Two Vines Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Columbia Crest from Columbia Valley, Washington. Styled for immediate appeal, this wine presents lemon and honeydew aromas that continue across a perfectly balanced palate. A soft fruity finish is threaded with hints of oak. Ray Einberger, Winemaker |
 | 8.99 | Dog House 2006 Charlie's Chard - Chardonnay White Wine White Wine by Dog House from California. A youthful, playful, fruit-driven wine with refreshing aromas of juicy lemon and sweet citrus blossom. Caramel apple flavors complement creamy malolactic textures. The rich mouthfeel is well-balanced by a friendly nip of bright acidity. Vanilla nuances from malolactic fermentation wrap up with a fresh and clean finish. Enjoy with crispy fried chicken, seafood pasta and grilled salmon on sunny dog-day afternoons. |
 | 9.29 | McWilliams 2006 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by McWilliams from Australia. Color: Pale straw Bouquet: Intense lifted peach aromas are beautifully supported by lashings of melon and citrus. The intense fruit is well integrated with nuances of butter and high quality oak. Palate: The palate is well structured and highly complex with creamy notes and well balanced acidity, giving the wine great length. Flavors of melon, peach and grapefruit are distinctive with the oak contributing to mouth feel and palate weight. Try serving this Chardonnay with grilled salmon steaks and baby new potatoes. |
 | 9.29 | Mirassou 2006 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Mirassou from Central Coast, California. This wine combines intense fruit flavors, carefully balanced with subtle oak characters to produce a well structured, medium-bodied Monterey County Chardonnay. It displays primary flavors of stone fruits such as peaches and nectarines with pineapples and other tropical fruits typical of a Monterey County Chardonnay. These characters are complemented by secondary flavors of pears, melon, citrus and floral notes. Very subtle oak influences of creamy, toasty and vanilla characters are also present, resulting in a well-balanced, medium-bodied wine. Crisp and delicately structured, as a result of the cooler but sunny growing conditions that provide naturally firm acid levels, this wine is extremely food friendly. |
 | 9.49 | Los Vascos 2006 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Los Vascos from Chile, South America. This wine is bright with white gold highlights. The nose is very expressive with white fruit aromas (pears, bananas). In the mouth, the fruit is rich, persistent with a soft and large finish. The Chardonnay should be drunk young and can be served as an aperitif and with oysters, white meats, fish and cheeses |
 | 9.49 | Bogle 2005 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Bogle from California. Bogle's 2005 Chardonnay has a little something for everyone: barrel fermentation, sur-lies aging, and partial malolactic fermentation. These hand-crafted processes create a rich and elegant wine with layers of complexity. Fresh tropical fruits like pineapple, mango and green apple greet both the nose and palate upon first sip, followed up by a touch of lemon cream. Complimented by more creamy notes of butterscotch and caramel, the wine has a long, lingering finish hinting of toasty oak. |
 | 9.49 | Concannon 2006 Selected Vineyards Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Concannon from California. This Chardonnay is medium-bodied with an integrated, well balanced nose, body and finish. It has rich pineapple-tropical fruit, crisp apple and a hint of honeysuckle. Pleasant toasty oak and vanilla notes with a clean, long finish. Enjoy with herb-roasted chicken or your favorite shellfish dish. |
 | 9.49 | Castle Rock 2008 Central Coast Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Castle Rock from Central Coast, California. This elegant Chardonnay offers a rich, ripe and fruity character with a delicious blending of vanilla, pear, citrus and melon flavors, subtle oak undertones and a long, balanced finish. In any season this Castle Rock Chardonnay will complement most cuisines and is an especially pleasing accompaniment to fish, poultry and lightly sauced entrees. |
 | 9.49 | DeLoach 2009 Heritage Reserve Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by DeLoach from California. This bright, refreshing wine offers enticing aromas of butterscotch, pear and citrus woven with a hint of orange blossom. Flavors of crisp white peach, Gravenstein apple and subtle oak complement the lush vanilla-cream palate, while a wet stone minerality and bright acidity lifts the structure for a brilliant finish. |
 | 9.49 | Tin Roof 2005 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Tin Roof from California. Our Chardonnay is smooth and rich, with fresh, creamy, apple and citrus flavors framed by subtle oak tones and balanced by crisp acidity. It's delicious with fried oysters, grilled salmon, halibut and swordfish, richly sauced chicken and pork dishes, Chef and Cobb salads, fettucine Alfredo, and mild cheeses. |
 | 9.79 | Concha y Toro 2008 Casillero Del Diablo Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Concha y Toro from Chile, South America. Fresh, fruity, balanced and clean, this wine mingles pear and lemon flavors with good acidity and firm texture. |
 | 9.79 | Echelon 2008 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Echelon from Central Coast, California. To capture the purity of the fruit, we harvested the grapes at the peak of ripeness, when their aromas and flavors were at optimum maturity. We utilized partial malolactic fermentation, which converted the tart malic acids to creamy lactic acids, imparting roundness to the midpalate. Sur lie aging, which further enhanced the richness of aromas and flavors, was followed by 10 months of aging in American and French oak for added texture and complexity. Fresh tropical and pear aromas join fragrant notes of oak on the nose of our 2008 Chardonnay. The supple, rounded midpalate is laden with fresh pineapple and guava interspersed with honeysuckle and brown spice that lift the fruit. Bright citrus and green pear develop across the finish, leaving a refreshing finale. With its versatility, this wine pairs well with a wide range of dishes from chicken Marsala to grilled halibut. |
 | 9.79 | Indaba 2009 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Indaba from South Africa. Citrus and tropical fruit aromas lead to a crisp, fresh palate with mouth-filling flavors of apple, pear, honey, and pineapple. A gentle kiss of oak adds a creamy butterscotch nuance and wonderful depth. A superb value, this versatile white is a fantastic match for a wide range of dishes, from mac & cheese to spicy ethnic food. |
 | 9.79 | Banfi 2007 Le Rime (Chardonnay/Pinot Grigio) - White Wine White Wine by Banfi from Veneto, Italy. Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay are nurtured to perfection in select hillside vineyards of the Banfi estate in Montalcino, Tuscany. The grapes are gently pressed, followed by vinification in bianco, or off the skins at low temperatures in stainless steel resulting in a delightfully harmonious wine. Le Rime, pale straw in color, is an aromatic, fruity white wine with a crisp finish replete with refreshing acidity. Served chilled, Le Rime is the perfect partner to a full range of foods including pasta, vegetables, fish, seafood, veal and poultry dishes. |
 | 9.99 | Bogle 2008 Chardonnay - White Wine White Wine by Bogle from California. Green apple and ripe pear overwhelm the senses, while creamy and buttery notes caress mid-palate. New American oak lends nutmeg and spicy tones to the wine. The finish leaves with crispness and balanced acidity. creating a wine perfect for pairing with nearly every kind of food. |
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Articles on Good Wine and Champagne
| WINES OF THE TIMES; The Evolution of Chardonnay CALIFORNIA chardonnays are not nearly what they once were. This makes me very happy. Not so long ago, California chardonnay was thought of by many as a kind of litmus test. Your stance on the wines signified your position on cuisine, culture and, no doubt, politics, religion, the afterlife and the future of the environment. Yes, I exaggerate, but |
| THE POUR; On Tap? How About Chardonnay Or Pinot Noir THE bartender pulls the handle and the liquid pours forth from keg to glass with the distinctive gushing sound that has launched a zillion thirsts. Ah, yes, that fresh draft flavor -- nothing like wine on tap. Wine? On tap? Is this another attack by the same philistines who insist on screw caps, stemless glasses and other means of depriving wine |
| THE POUR; Chardonnay in Aisle 3? YOU can do it in 35 states -- you can pretty much do it anywhere in the wine-producing world -- but you cannot do it in New York. Do what? Stop at the grocery store to pick up a loaf of bread, some cheese and a bottle of wine. Since Prohibition ended more than 75 years ago it has been illegal to retail wine in New York at any place other than a |
| WINES OF THE TIMES; California Chardonnay Grows Up IT'S hard to feel neutral about California chardonnay. The wine's almost effortless popularity as a mass-market white also brought it the mark of infamy. For every dozen people who unthinkingly asked for a chardonnay when they really meant any white wine, there were always a few who cried out that they'd take anything but chardonnay. These |
| Milk to Chardonnay A Connecticut dairy farm has turned its cow pastures into a vineyard. |
| HAVENS | WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.; Where Chardonnay and Nascar Go Side by Side LIKE slowly poured chardonnay, grapevine-heavy hills seem to tumble into Seneca Lake, the largest of New York's Finger Lakes. Wide and smooth, the glacial lake is perfect for boating, fishing -- and pondering. ''It puts you in a trance, and you don't really want to leave,'' said Matthew Markunas, who lives in Northumberland, Pa., and owns a |
| WINE UNDER $20; A Chardonnay That Surprises At $6.99, a well-made and appetite-sharpening chardonnay is a bargain. McAdam Buy-Rite, 398 Third Avenue (28th Street), a specialist in Long Island wines, charges that sum for the High Yield chardonnay from Palmer Vineyards, on the North Fork. Created in 2005, this white is an all-purpose everyday wine, light, fresh and fruity. Fans of $10-and-up |
| SAMURAI SIPPER; Chardonnay: An Apologia The reason chardonnay has lowly stature and wide appeal is best summed up by Alexander Pope: a little learning is a dangerous thing. Most people know chardonnay as a wildly popular down-market grape that grows in bucketloads anywhere. If getting blotto is your motto, cheap chard will do, and it's easier to say than ''gewurztraminer.'' Novices love |
| WINE UNDER $20; A Chardonnay, Pure and Simple Jean Manciat's 2005 Mâcon Charnay Franclieu is an appetite-sharpening chardonnay that fatigued summer visitors to southern Burgundy might dream of drinking chilled from a village fountain. Deftly tending 13.6 acres of vines in chalky soil, the organically oriented Mr. Manciat produces pure, simple, flinty chardonnay without cosmetic manipulations |
| Pouring Chardonnay Diplomacy The foreign affairs fur is flying. I'm not talking about the catfight between two strong-willed, expensively dressed Democratic pols married to California gazillionaires, with Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi trying to yank Jane Harman from heading the House Intelligence Committee. I'm talking about the catfight between the Idealists and the Realists. |
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The white Burgundy (oaked Chardonnay at its best) was serious wine man. Now moved onto Bruichladdich 18 year old especially for #maltmonday!Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used to make white wine. It is believed to have originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern France but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand. For new and developing wine regions, growing Chardonnay is seen as a "rite of passage" and an easy segue into the international wine market.
The Chardonnay grape itself is very neutral, with many of the flavors commonly associated with the grape being derived from such influences as terroir and oak. It is vinified in many different styles, from the elegant, "flinty" wines of Chablis to rich, buttery Meursaults and New World wines with tropical fruit flavors.
Chardonnay is an important component of many sparkling wines around the world, including Champagne. A peak in popularity in the late 1980s gave way to a backlash among those wine drinkers who saw the grape as a leading negative component of the globalization of wine. Nonetheless, it remains one of the most widely-planted grape varieties, with over 400,000 acres (175,000 hectares) worldwide, second only to Airén among white wine grapes and planted in more wine regions than any other grape – including Cabernet Sauvignon.
For much of its history, a connection was assumed between Chardonnay and Pinot noir or Pinot blanc. In addition to being found in the same region of France for centuries, ampelographers noted that the leaves of each plant have near-identical shape and structure. Pierre Galet disagreed with this assessment, believing that Chardonnay was not related to any other major grape variety. Viticulturalists Maynard Amerine & Harold Olmo proposed a descendency from a wild Vitis vinifera vine that was a step removed from white Muscat. Chardonnay's true origins were further obscured by vineyard owners in Lebanon and Syria, who claimed that the grape's ancestry could be traced to the Middle East, from where it was introduced to Europe by returning Crusaders, though there is little external evidence to support that theory. Another theory stated that it originated from an ancient indigenous vine found in Cyprus.
The Chardonnay grape itself is very neutral, with many of the flavors commonly associated with the grape being derived from such influences as terroir and oak. It is vinified in many different styles, from the elegant, "flinty" wines of Chablis to rich, buttery Meursaults and New World wines with tropical fruit flavors.
Chardonnay is an important component of many sparkling wines around the world, including Champagne. A peak in popularity in the late 1980s gave way to a backlash among those wine drinkers who saw the grape as a leading negative component of the globalization of wine. Nonetheless, it remains one of the most widely-planted grape varieties, with over 400,000 acres (175,000 hectares) worldwide, second only to Airén among white wine grapes and planted in more wine regions than any other grape – including Cabernet Sauvignon.
For much of its history, a connection was assumed between Chardonnay and Pinot noir or Pinot blanc. In addition to being found in the same region of France for centuries, ampelographers noted that the leaves of each plant have near-identical shape and structure. Pierre Galet disagreed with this assessment, believing that Chardonnay was not related to any other major grape variety. Viticulturalists Maynard Amerine & Harold Olmo proposed a descendency from a wild Vitis vinifera vine that was a step removed from white Muscat. Chardonnay's true origins were further obscured by vineyard owners in Lebanon and Syria, who claimed that the grape's ancestry could be traced to the Middle East, from where it was introduced to Europe by returning Crusaders, though there is little external evidence to support that theory. Another theory stated that it originated from an ancient indigenous vine found in Cyprus.