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UK
/ʃˌɑːdənˈeɪ/
]
[ US /tʃɑɹˈdɑneɪ/ ]
[ US /tʃɑɹˈdɑneɪ/ ]
NOUN
- dry white table wine resembling Chablis but made from Chardonnay grapes
- white wine grape
How To Use Chardonnay In A Sentence
- Lindauer Brut £7.49 Made from the Pinot and Chardonnay grape this dry wine had a light golden colour.
- Winemaker Juan Micieli-Martinez used a bit of every white grape MCV grows for this blend, which is 32% sauvignon blanc, 25% viognier, 15% chardonnay, 10% semillon, 8% riesling, 7% pinot grigio and 3% Gewurztraminer. The New York Cork Report:
- Also try the Zandvliet Chardonnay, the Astonvale Shiraz produced and the unwooded Astonvale Chardonnay and the Astonvale Crème.
- Deeper gold is often a dead giveaway of an oak-aged chardonnay. Globe and Mail
- 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.
- Or when they want to start with, say, a Chardonnay, then switch to a Cabernet with the meal.
- Red Bordeaux is the world's best wine, and Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are the best grapes.
- What I try to avoid is mass-produced bottom-of-the-barrel troisième cru vin de table distilled from grapes grown in a soil unsuitable for the Chardonnay grape being passed off as potable.
- Wine anoraks know that these wines are made from Chardonnay grapes, but most drinkers associate Chablis with a taste, not its component parts, and they buy it because they like it, and the idea of it.
- Chardonnay vines tend to bud early in the season and prefer calciferous soils that contain marl.