Chardonnay Wines
Gone is the season of the ABC (Anything but Chardonnay) white wine drinker – Chardonnay wine has seen a resurgence of late and Chardon-nay-sayers are starting to come around to this versatile and rewarding variety. Winemakers love it too, as it provides so many options that can yield wildly different results... Oak, or no oak, full or partial malolactic fermentation or indeed, stop the ferment before malo starts... Depending on what the winemaker chooses to do, you can see incredibly bright and acidic options that are crisp and refreshing or woody and creamy versions that seem as though they may have been strained through a lumberjacks jockstrap... either way, Chardonnay white wine is back baby, and we love it!
Is Chardonnay dry or sweet?
Most Chardonnay is fermented dry.
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- Artis Jacopin Chardonnay 2023Special Price $28.00 Regular Price $30.00Chardonnay sourced from a high altitude vineyard in the Adelaide Hills which is whole bunch pressed with fruit from a single Willunga Vineyard. Elegance and length aplenty here, with lemon, grapefruit, nectarine and melon all on the go. Refined, yet powerful with both fine aromaticity, notes of cedary French oak and a good palate weight happening. Learn More
- Curtis Heritage Chardonnay 2021Special Price $20.00 Regular Price $30.00A lighter, almost Chablis style of Chardy. Aromatics emphasise citrus and Citrus blossoms. The palate is light to mid weight, offering peach and honeydew melon, Finish is crisp and dry. Learn More
- Eight at the Gate Family Selection Chardonnay 2022Special Price $35.00 Regular Price $38.00An outstanding chardonnay, offering stonefruits, grapefruit, brioche, honeydew melon, spice, flintiness, great texture and length. If only all Chardonnay was like this. Learn More
- First Creek 'Hunter Valley' Chardonnay 2022Special Price $24.00 Regular Price $30.00Stunning value Chardy from James Halliday's reigning Winemaker of the Year! Nine months in 25% new French oak and lees stirring in barrel provides texture and structure to cleansing and citrussy fruit. Learn More
- Growers Gate Chardonnay 2021$14.00Peach and citrus aromas are supported by a little cedary French oak. Stone fruits and buttery goodness all at play on the palate which leads to a clean, dry finish. Learn More
- Heirloom Assen’s Fortalice Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2018Special Price $50.00 Regular Price $60.00Brightly fruited with struck match handing the baton to stonefruits, pancake batter and melon. As you sip, swirl and taste, the flavors deepen and increase in richness and depth. Already excellent, this will be exceptional in a few more years. Learn More
- Leconfield Coonawarra Chardonnay 2022Special Price $26.00 Regular Price $28.00A beautifully buttery and oaky Leconfield Chardonnay Chardy. Ripe tropical fruits, matchstick, stonefruits, creaminess and grilled nuts. Looking for a buttery Chard with a good hit of French oak, look no further! Learn More
- Maison Jean Loron Pouilly Fuisse BIO ‘La Coronile’ 2019Special Price $110.00 Regular Price $120.00A stunning White Burgundy, aka Chardonnay, from a legendary producer who has been fermenting grapes since 1711. Bill Nanson, of the Burgundy Report, first tasted this wine 3 years ago, offering ‘More complexity and vibrance to this aroma – more barrel too ... a wine that’s more about the future. Wide, saline, concentrated, and certainly mineral. The finish is subtle but very persistent. You should give this wine at least 3 years in the cellar – or I would anyway. Excellent wine, with the potential for great.’ So, we’ve waited 3 years and the wine is ravishingly beautiful – voluptuous yet structured, pendulously stonefruity yet mineral, with a lovely cheese edge that comes from barrel worked and lees stirred Chardonnay. Magic stuff. Learn More
- Novum Marlborough Chardonnay 2022$60.00A well-equipped challenger to white Burgundy, as the following quote from Master of Wine Jancis Robinson attests, 'If only all white burgundy smelt this clean and compelling.' If this Chardy could sing, it'd have a voice of pure silk, and hit all the notes. Delightful wafts of red apple, sweet fruit tea and white flowers float from the glass. Pure on the palate, with hints of white orchard fruits, wood spice, almond and lemon zest. A small amount of New Oak (10%) gives some fine toasty tannins. A graceful and very long finish. Pour yourself a glass one Sunday afternoon and let the wine sing! Learn More
- Smalltown Vineyards Next Big Thing Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2022Special Price $24.00 Regular Price $28.00A single vineyard Barossa Chardonnay, partially fermented in new French oak. Rich, ripe, stone fruity and buttery. Just like they used to make 'em! Learn More