Wines made from Chardonnay grapes of Ontario
Discover the best wines made with Chardonnay as a single variety or as a blend of Ontario.
More informations about the variety Chardonnay
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
More informations about the region of Ontario
Ontario is the most populated and prolific wine producing province in Canada. The Long established wine industry here is centered around the Great Lakes of Erie and Ontario, where the continental Climate is moderated heavily by the large bodies of water. The majority of wines produced in Ontario are Dry table wines (around 60 percent are white and 40 percent red). They are mostly made from Riesling, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir.
What are the typical flavors of the Chardonnay grape variety?
- Tree fruitPresent in 41% of Chardonnay
- Citrus fruitPresent in 36% of Chardonnay
- OakPresent in 35% of Chardonnay
- MicrobioPresent in 31% of Chardonnay
- EarthPresent in 28% of Chardonnay
- Non oakPresent in 20% of Chardonnay
- SpicesPresent in 12% of Chardonnay
- Tropical fruitPresent in 11% of Chardonnay
- VegetalPresent in 10% of Chardonnay
- Red fruitPresent in 7% of Chardonnay
- FloralPresent in 2% of Chardonnay
- HoneyPresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- Black fruitPresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- Yellow applePresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- CantaloupePresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- ChardPresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- Dried fruitPresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- MangoPresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- GooseberryPresent in 1% of Chardonnay
- Passion fruitPresent in 1% of Chardonnay
News about the grape variety Chardonnay
Champagne harvest 2022: top quality forecast as picking begins
The Champagne 2022 harvest has begun and picking start dates have been set for the majority of villages, the Comité Champagne has announced. Individual harvest start dates are set for each village and grape variety in the entire Champagne region. This year, dates range between 20 August (Montgueux in the Côte des Blancs) and 6 September (Dormans Soilly in the Vallée de la Marne). The Réseau Matu, a network of hundreds of vineyard control plots, is used to observe the ripening of grapes across th ...
Willamette Valley grape crop is dealt a frosty blow
On 11 April, 2022, cold temperatures, snow and frost arrived in the Willamette Valley. The pre-dawn hours of 15 April were particularly devastating, with numerous vineyards registering overnight lows of minus three to zero degrees Celsius. Gregory Jones, a research climatologist and CEO of Abacela Winery in Roseburg, Oregon, refers to the event as ‘February in April’ in his weather and climate newsletter. The frost’s timing was disastrous. Thanks to a warmer, drier Oregon winter, Chardonnay and ...
Corollary unveils plans to become Oregon’s first exclusively sparkling wine production estate
The new Eola-Amity site will break ground in the spring of 2023, with about 8 plantable hectares between 180 and 230 metres in elevation. In addition to the elevation, the property sits right in the path of the Van Duzer Corridor. The gap in the Oregon Coast Range allows a flood of cool pacific air, which tempers the warm summer heat each afternoon – making the Willamette Valley as hospitable as it is for grapes like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The new Corollary estate vineyards will be planted t ...