Chardonnay

A single-variety Chardonnay from one Sussex farm, 40% barrel-fermented and then left seven years before release — the sort of patience th...

Most sparkling rosé leans on Pinot Noir; Fitzrovia is more than two-thirds Chardonnay with a measured fraction of still Pinot Noir blende...

Leyda is the coldest serious vineyard land in Chile, and it gives this sparkler an acidity most tank-method fizz outside Europe cannot manage.

Hoffmann & Rathbone make tiny quantities and refuse to release them young, so this 2015 has had seven to ten years on lees before disgorg...

Two old friends set out in 2008 to make an English sparkling wine that could stand beside the best, and chose their chalk accordingly.

Southern England's chalk is the same seam that runs under Champagne, and Chardonnay is the grape that shows it most plainly.

Wiston's chalk escarpment on the South Downs is as close as England gets to Champagne's geology, and the family have farmed it on biodyna...

A serious Stellenbosch Chardonnay built for tension rather than weight: barrel-fermented for texture, then held back from malolactic ferm...

The R Collection is Raymond's everyday range, blended across North and Central Coast sites so it tastes the same every year.

Wiston sits on the same chalk as Champagne and has been working it since 2006, with the Coquard basket press and old Burgundian barrels to match.

Ridgeview have been making sparkling wine in Sussex since 1995, which in England counts as a long time, and the consistency is what they ...

Franciacorta is Italy's answer to Champagne and Bellavista is one of the two houses that made its reputation, working only its own vineyards.

Far Niente has built its name on Chardonnay since the estate was revived in 1979, and this is one of Napa's reference bottlings for the b...

Freemark Abbey has been making Napa Chardonnay since the nineteenth century, and this is the house style at its most recognisable: French...

Educato shows what limestone at 380 to 400 metres does for Chardonnay in the Langhe.

A single south-east facing block on limestone, planted at 11,111 vines per hectare and farmed biodynamically since it went in the ground.

Ben Glover is one of Marlborough's most experienced winemakers and Amped is where he takes the region somewhere other than Sauvignon Blanc.

Craggy Range is one of the few New Zealand wineries that can be relied on across an entire range, and Kidnappers is where its Chardonnay ...

Old vines planted in the 1980s on North Canterbury clay, wild-fermented and split between new oak and concrete.

Puglia is known for big reds, and Edda is the region making a serious white instead: a barrel-fermented blend led by Chardonnay with two ...

A four-grape white that ignores appellation lines to chase freshness, drawing Chardonnay, Petit Manseng and Chenin off cool clay-limeston...

Collavini's flagship white, and made the hard way: the Friulano and Chardonnay are dried on trays before pressing, which is why it has th...

Chardonnay has been in the ground at Epanomi since 1983, long enough for the estate to know exactly what it wants from it: barrel ferment...

Duval-Leroy makes Femme de Champagne only in years it considers exceptional, and 2002 is widely held to be the Champagne vintage of its decade.