Wines made from Chardonnay grapes of Cava - Page 3
Discover the best wines made with Chardonnay as a single variety or as a blend of Cava.
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 Cava
Cava is Spain's signature style of Sparkling wine, and the Iberian Peninsula's answer to Champagne. The traditional Grape varieties used in Cava were Macabeo, Parellada and Xarel-lo, but the Champagne varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are also used. While the first Cava was produced exclusively in Catalonia - specifically in a small town called San Sadurní de Noya - modern Cava can be sourced from various regions of Spain. Aragon, Navarre, Rioja, Pais Vasco, Valencia and Extremadura have specific delimited areas that can benefit from the designation of origin.
What are the typical flavors of the Chardonnay grape variety?
- Tree fruitPresent in 41% of Chardonnay
- Citrus fruitPresent in 35% of Chardonnay
- MicrobioPresent in 25% of Chardonnay
- Non oakPresent in 20% of Chardonnay
- EarthPresent in 17% of Chardonnay
- OakPresent in 16% of Chardonnay
- VegetalPresent in 9% of Chardonnay
- CitrusPresent in 5% of Chardonnay
- ApplesPresent in 5% of Chardonnay
- Tropical fruitPresent in 4% of Chardonnay
- SpicesPresent in 4% of Chardonnay
- YeastPresent in 3% of Chardonnay
- Red fruitPresent in 3% of Chardonnay
- FloralPresent in 3% of Chardonnay
- MineralityPresent in 3% of Chardonnay
- ToastyPresent in 2% of Chardonnay
- LemonPresent in 2% of Chardonnay
- ApricotPresent in 2% of Chardonnay
- CreamPresent in 2% of Chardonnay
- PineapplePresent in 2% of Chardonnay
News about the grape variety Chardonnay
Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022
The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...
An overview of Saint-Véran appellation
Let’s have a look at Saint-Véran vineyard and discover the magnificent and very diverse landscapes of this appellation situated in the South of Bourgogne. Saint-Véran is one of the 5 Village appellations with Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Pouilly-Loché and Viré-Clessé. Like them, it produces only white wines from the Chardonnay grape. What makes it special is that the vineyard is cut in two dinstinct parts by the vineyard of Pouilly-Fuissé. As anywhere else in the vineyard in Bourgogn ...
Andrew Jefford: ‘Rosé, for the time being, is a pretty babble’
Many wine styles can seem perplexing at first: imagine the first bottle of Barolo if you only know Barossa Shiraz, or the first bottle of Jura Savagnin if you were brought up on California Chardonnay. With time, thought and repeated tasting, though, comes understanding. You learn each wine’s syntax and lexicon, its hints and inferences. You grasp the ways in which each style communicates. Its beauty dawns, then grows. Rosé wine sales grew 23% worldwide between 2002 and 2019. Its fuel has come fr ...