Bight on Cabernet's heels are Merlot and, in the cooler, southern end of the valley, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. |
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I found Liberman and Nunberg the other day just about ready to dash glasses of Chardonnay in each other's faces. |
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Among white wines, Chardonnay stands up better to being boxed than most grape varieties. |
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Lighter foods, such as grilled fish, work best with more delicate whites such as Sauvignon Blanc or a light Chardonnay. |
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The main varietals in Chile are Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc for whites and Cabernet, Merlot and Carmenere for reds. |
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Red Bordeaux is the world's best wine, and Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are the best grapes. |
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All the great white wines are made from Chardonnay, all the great reds from Pinot Noir. |
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They are often made from one variety of grapes, such as Cabernet, Merlot, or Chardonnay. |
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The most prominent white varieties grown are Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. |
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The common stars of cool-weather climates are Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and the Santa Cruz Mountains do them proud. |
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Before the Chardonnay boom, Chenin Blanc was the West's most-planted white grape. |
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Today, the Santa Ynez Valley produces a diverse range of superb varietal wines, including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah. |
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Beaune Main town in the southern half of Burgundy, noted for fine white and red wines made, respectively, from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. |
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Ever the scientist, Magoon discovered that the soil was perfect for Bordeaux varietals such as Chardonnay and Petite Syrah. |
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Although Rieslings are a consistently good bet, you will also see ice wines made from Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer, and Pinot Blanc. |
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The area is now home to a range of varietals, from ever-popular Chardonnay and Merlot to less-common grapes like Sangiovese. |
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I reckon a quarter of all white wine is made from Chardonnay these days, or says it is on the label. |
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We learnt that the two were made from the same variety of grapes called Chardonnay. |
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Those tired of drinking Chardonnay or Merlot should try a tasting to explore other varietals. |
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The most internationally recognized wines from California are however, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. |
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A few years ago, restaurants only had a choice of white or red, Chardonnay or Merlot. |
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There was some smarmy Chardonnay socialist banging on about how we should be buying hybrids. |
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The Accord with the unions allowed Labor to embrace the economic reforms that attracted the Chardonnay socialists into the fold. |
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Anyway, Chasselas grapes have not been grown here for a long time and have been replaced by Chardonnay. |
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Varieties such as Chardonnay and Riesling are more winter hardy than Pinot Noir, Chasselas, and Cabernet Sauvignon. |
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Swinging voters will see it as a sign that he has escaped from the clutches of the Chardonnay swilling elites. |
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Then again, perhaps we were just a bunch of Chardonnay swilling elitists totally out of touch with middle Australia. |
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The lively, aniseed-spiked Granny Smith and exotic fresh pineapple fruit of this tried and trusted Aussie Chardonnay continues to impress. |
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Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, in particular, thrive in the foggy, cooler areas near the coast. |
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It benefits from longer maturation and higher Pinot Noir and Chardonnay content. |
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It's just the thing for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes, which develop complexity in the area's warm days and cool nights. |
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A recent survey of my friends and relations revealed that their current go-to wines for Thanksgiving dinner are Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. |
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The mouth-watering finish is more Sauvignon blanc than Chardonnay in style. |
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Serve with salad, crusty bread and Chardonnay to two appreciative flatmates. |
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Poached salmon with Bearnaise sauce, potato salad, spicy couscous, green salad, washed down with my contribution, a bottle of Chardonnay. |
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Sauvignon Blanc ranks foremost among them, with Chardonnay not too far behind. |
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You know the varietal tide is turning when a lowly worker grape such as gordo blanco can command more dollars than even the cheapest Chardonnay. |
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A blanc de blancs is a sparkling wine made exclusively from Chardonnay grapes. |
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Today their cultivated land is up to 50 acres and includes Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay grapes. |
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A sweet-tart noodle and chicken salad pairs perfectly with the round, smooth Chardonnay, with its lean acid and Gravenstein apple flavor. |
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Full and potent but not too weighty, Montes Alpha Chardonnay 2003 exhibits a peachy, grapey nose with a slight effervescence. |
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I can also recommend the hotel restaurant where I dined well and drank Chardonnay that tasted exactly like honey. |
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Anyway, we had the garlic, tomato and oregano soaked courgettes served with a pork escalope and a glass of cold Italian Chardonnay. |
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The result is a ripe, juicy, all-purpose Chardonnay with a fine, buttery finish. |
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The fog-filled Russian River Valley is made up of 11,000 acres devoted heavily to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Zinfandel. |
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Among Californian wines there are good Chardonnay, Merlot, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir. |
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Apart from oak, Chardonnay has many other influences on its complexity of flavours. |
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Depending on what you serve with your tomato dish, try drinking a Chardonnay, a Fume Blanc, a Chenin Blanc, a Zinfandel or a Syrah. |
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The title came about when the two owners tasted an experimental Chardonnay that had been left on the lees in barrels for some time. |
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I made griddled salmon with steamed broccoli and courgettes, and we talked, and laughed, and my Dad opened a lovely bottle of Chardonnay. |
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Chardonnay is the main grape variety, with Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Noir a long way behind. |
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Increasing plantings here have made it our fourth most planted white after Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Riesling. |
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But Neal also uses Chardonnay, Riesling, Viognier, and Sangiovese, making verjus is similar to making wine, except juice is not fermented. |
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The Chardonnay was a light and elegant, vaguely lemony wine, which was far more like it. |
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For whites we waived Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc for the more aromatic Chenin Blanc and dry Riesling. |
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More appositely, it makes a fine partner to the Bin 65 Chardonnay if you intend to serve a heavily spiced leg of lamb tomorrow. |
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Moved by the ceremony and lubricated by Chardonnay, the women are in a vulnerable state. |
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After being opened for a day or more, the Chardonnay sometimes tasted softer and less oaky, the Cabernet rounder and less tannic. |
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A fine match for this is this Ardeche, a lean blend of Sauvignon and Chardonnay. |
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Some age their Sauvignons in new oak, disguising it as a sort of poor man's Chardonnay. |
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The range includes a Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay. |
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They also do Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, plus a Champagne style sparkler. |
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The Sauvignon tastes like hay and the Chardonnay has a steely finish that's not very charming, but both are still better than what I had before. |
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The waitress didn't know a difference between Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay and the manager was cocky and rude. |
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This Chardonnay has good texture from partial malolactic with creamy and nutty notes under lively pear and apple flavours. |
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Because the winemaker can have such a strong influence it is often technique that defines the flavors of Chardonnay wines more than terroir. |
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But its producers are banking on the Chardonnay becoming the miracle longed for by the calorie-counting female wine-bar generation. |
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Yet more techniques for adding to or altering the flavour of Chardonnay are oak-barrel fermentation and maturation. |
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In 1974, he planted famous varietals like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. |
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In Australia as elsewhere in the world, Chardonnay is seen as the grape of today and of tomorrow. |
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And midst them are those of Sydney Agricultural University whose Chardonnay is a premium wine in the market. |
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Even the cheapest Chardonnay, they said, needed its requisite shavings before it would sell. |
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Two of its prize-winning wines, the Semillon Chardonnay and the Shiraz Cabernet, have also come to town. |
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But taken together they do underscore the importance of the US market for all that Shiraz and Chardonnay. |
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This joyous, soft, ripe, buttery Chardonnay with a pleasingly ripe nutty finish is a bargain at this price. |
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Stein's first course of raw tuna fish starter marinated with passion fruit and green chilli goes perfectly with the Tower Chardonnay he's bought. |
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Saumur's most important wine is Saumur Mousseux, a well-priced sparkling wine made from Chenin Blanc grapes with Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. |
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Cabernet, Chardonnay, Riesling, Semillion and muscat are the other important grapes. |
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Made in a fantastic year for white Burgundy, this organically-farmed Chardonnay is what great unoaked Chablis should be all about. |
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He is a smallholder, a farmer of Chardonnay, and right now his local reputation and personal pride is on the line. |
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To go with the meal, Rachain chose a French Bourgogne Chardonnay, a very smooth white with a delightful bouquet. |
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I also ordered a bottle of the unwooded Chardonnay from Constantia Uitsig 1998 to match the fish starters. |
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Chardonnay and to a slightly lesser extent Syrah, for example, are extremely versatile. |
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I think it is bad for Chardonnay and it is bad for the wine industry to use that term to describe a part of the political spectrum. |
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Until I tasted the 2000 vintage of this Languedoc Chardonnay, I was not very keen on the confected style of this heavily promoted southern white. |
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The trout blend is made of Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc and Viognier grapes. |
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Most of our customers know Chardonnay and Merlot, so we'll take them to a Viognier or a Riesling. |
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The Petrie Chardonnay 2003 is a clean, complex, minimally oaked food wine in the slightly austere style of top French white burgundies. |
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Chardonnay is the most important varietal, with the best offering notes of apple, pear, butterscotch and pineapple. |
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The range includes tumblers specifically designed for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet and so on. |
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Or when they want to start with, say, a Chardonnay, then switch to a Cabernet with the meal. |
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While one wine aficionado may prefer a Chardonnay to a Cabernet, some art collectors may prefer different interpretations of wine art. |
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And there's the Alexander Valley, 16,000 vineyard acres focused primarily on Cabernet, Merlot and Chardonnay. |
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They cover all the main grape varieties, including Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. |
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It also does well with most of the other familiar grape varieties, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, and Riesling. |
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On tour around the country, we had cause to sample Chardonnay, Muscat, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from this producer and we enjoyed them all. |
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Chardonnay vines tend to bud early in the season and prefer calciferous soils that contain marl. |
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We enjoyed a lightly oaked Rochioli Russian River Valley 2000 Chardonnay that we bought during our last trip to California. |
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This creamy, stylishly oaked Chardonnay, with its focused acidity and fine, citrus fruit core is hard to beat. |
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Ellis is one of South Africa's leading winemakers, and this understated citrus fruity, subtly oaked Chardonnay is a triumph. |
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This big, rich, oaked Chardonnay might have been ready to drink had it been closed with a natural cork. |
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At least the achievements gave middle England an excuse to stay up late and crack a bottle of Chardonnay. |
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It needed to concentrate on more popular white varietals such as Chardonnay and, especially, Sauvignon Blanc rather than the insipid steen. |
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Two sticks of celery taste so much better washed down with a glass of Chardonnay or two. |
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All this wasn't helped by having a stonker of a headache caused by two bottles of very nice reserve Chardonnay on Saturday night. |
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You don't see enough organic wines on restaurant lists, so this Catalan blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay is a real find. |
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Their Chardonnay wines remind one of well made Chablis, with a hint of California fruit at the finish. |
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The French wine selection features some good Chablis, Chardonnay, and Beuajolais, which can complement most food. |
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The Chablis from Domaine Larroche, France, came next and was followed by a Chardonnay from Montes, Chile. |
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As a final part of the cooperage process, a fire is lit under the upturned barrel and this is what gives toasted flavours to a wood-aged Chardonnay. |
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So, with some minor exceptions, all the wines of Burgundy are produced either from the Chardonnay grape for white wines, or the Pinot Noir for reds. |
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Prices for multi-purpose grapes have fallen sharply as Americans have shifted to varietal wines made from Merlot, Cabernet, Zinfandel, or Chardonnay grapes. |
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The varieties planted were Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer and Rhine Riesling. |
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Where would California be without Chardonnay or Australia without Shiraz? |
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The Brights made their name in Portugal by producing top-notch wines from the country's indigenous grapes rather than from the popular Chardonnay and Cabernet. |
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A special building is used for the ageing of Milmanda, a Chardonnay wine fermented in small oak casks which spends a long period in contact with its own lees. |
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Other wines include Merlot, Cabernet and a late harvest Chardonnay. |
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There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips. |
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One can never appreciate or even understand Burgundy simply by pitting it against the lush fruit-forward styles of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the New World. |
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And who says that a Chardonnay socialist knows how to spend the vintner's money better than a vintner, especially when the vintner is struggling to survive? |
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The old cafes are still local favorites, but now it's also possible to watch a dusky red sunset filtered through a mellow golden Chardonnay at several very good restaurants. |
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You walk through row upon row of Merlot, Chardonnay and small clusters of Sauvignon Blanc, their beautifully ripe, blue-tinged grapes demanding to be picked. |
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The wine has a fresh, crisp, tart dryness that serves almost as a surface coating through which one can perceive the underlying fruit of the Chardonnay grape. |
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She sampled a Chardonnay, a Pinot Grigio, and a Cabernet Sauvignon. |
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For many years no distinction was made between Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay since the two varieties can look very similar to all but the keenest ampelographers. |
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Its fresh, sparkling flavour is distinguished by a unique blend of excellent wines from classic grape varieties such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin. |
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Helen lives alone in her neat, cream-and-beige home, curling up in her plain leather armchair each night to eat a low-fat TV dinner and swig a glass of Chardonnay. |
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A typically flavoursome, well-priced Chardonnay from one of Chile's best wineries, this shows restrained oak and notes of citrus fruit and white peach. |
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The chateau is surrounded by sweeping mountainsides, and its reddish soils and steep manicured vineyards provide brilliant Chardonnay, silky Cabernet and top quality Syrah. |
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In this diary, the heroine is more likely to spend her days loading cartloads of hay and selling cattle rather than counting calories and swigging Chardonnay. |
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The Meursault turned out be a Chablis, the Sancerre a Chenin Blanc from Vouvray, and what I thought was a Chardonnay turned out to be a Verdicchio from Italy. |
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This brilliant tri-varietal white blends the buttery character of Chardonnay with the aniseed, angelica and citrus flavours of Sauvignon and muscat grapes. |
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Because of its location and aspect, Romania has been very successful with these foreign varieties, most notably Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. |
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One trend that emerged in the late 1990s was unoaked Chardonnay. |
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Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about hermaphrodite babies. |
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Certain words are commonly associated with certain grape varieties, such as cassis and Cabernet Sauvignon, gooseberries and Sauvignon Blanc, or butter and Chardonnay. |
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Along the road are a handful of small wineries with tasting rooms offering Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and some older varieties such as Carignane and Barbera. |
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While March saw the commencement of relaxed wine labelling laws, simply having the word Chardonnay on a bottle of Chablis or Meursault will not bring the necessary changes. |
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The tipping point to commoditize Chardonnay appears to be only 90,000 bearing acres in California. |
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As well as a change in name, the single varietals have been altered to include a Vin de Pays d'Oc Merlot and Chardonnay. |
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From these early plantings after the repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933, Herman and Ernest Wente released the nation's first varietally labeled Chardonnay, a 1936 vintage. |
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Chardonnay is usually considered a non-aromatic in comparison to riesling. |
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The Pinot Meunier adds to the fruitiness, fleshiness and richness of the bubbly and the Chardonnay brings acidity and tails off the juiciness, adding to the refreshing nature. |
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Seven Falls 2012 Chardonnay At once elegant and voluptuous, there is nice vanillin and butterscotch character here, with firm structure to support the ripe fruit. |
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Cuvaison's new label, introduced with the release of the 2011 Estate Chardonnay and 2011 Estate Pinot Noir, features a clean, modernistic logo, updated fonts and foil trim. |
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If we are entering an era where streets are paved with shattered plate glass, shopsoiled Louis Vuitton and agreeable, looted Chardonnay bottles it is as well to be prepared. |
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