Cool climate varietals (like Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris) thrive here thanks to our long summer days and cool nights, but we are slaves to whatever nature decides to throw us each year.
After the 1994 North American Fair Trade Agreement , the Canadian government encouraged winemakers to rip out cheaper varietals and plant premium grapes for merlot, pinot gris, chardonnay and pinot noir, to better compete with US wines.
It specialises in single-vineyard Pinot, Chardonnay and Zinfandel, some from old-vine fruit.
Stop off at the low Prairie Schoolish building along Highway 128 to taste the wonders their exacting standards bring out in the local pinot and chardonnay.
The wines must be crafted only from the Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier or Chardonnay grapes grown in the region.
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Toss in two familiar grapes pinot noir and chardonnay for body and structure and you have a fabulous Cava.
Mention Bordeaux, and one thinks of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, mention Burgundy and one thinks of Gamay, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
In the northern part of the valley, chardonnay and pinot noir-based wines are crafted.
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and sparkling wine are the watchwords here, with notable producers including Hyde de Villaine, Saintsbury and, for sparkling wine, Domaine Carneros.
And yet, most of us cannot afford to purchase a wine stem for every grape varietal (currently Riedel offers wine glasses for everything from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir to Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon).
And unlike Chardonnay, fine Pinot Gris is not "a winemaker's wine" that can make up with cellar cosmetics (like aging in charred oak barrels and secondary fermentations) what it lacks coming in from the vineyard.
The unique climate of each vineyard allows for the production of cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, merlot, pinot noir, sauvignon blanc, malbec, syrah and viognier.
Burgundy's growers have relegated Pinot Gris to the fringes--all but run it out of town, really--in favor of its oak-loving cousin, Chardonnay (a cross of Pinot Noir and something called Gouais Blanc).
Burgundy's growers have relegated Pinot Gris to the fringes-all but run it out of town, really-in favor of its oak-loving cousin, Chardonnay (a cross of Pinot Noir and something called Gouais Blanc).
There were nonvintage Champagnes composed entirely of Chardonnay and nonvintages made mostly of Pinot Noir or Pinot Meunier.
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Debunking the notion that good wines come only in glass bottles sealed with corks, French winemaker Boisset Family Estates is introducing into the U.S. a 750-milliliter polyethylene terephthalate bottle of wine called Yellow Jersey--a chardonnay, a sauvignon blanc, a pinot noir and a merlot, from grapes grown in the Languedoc region of France.
It could, that is, except that California Chardonnay is as popular as ever, and at the current pace it would take, well, let's just say a really long time before Pinot Gris' 5, 900 acres catches up to Chardonnay's 98, 000.
At 1, 800 acres, Pinot Gris covers almost twice as much vineyard land there as Chardonnay, much of the best in the Willamette Valley south of Portland.
While Chardonnay grew to fame as "white Burgundy, " Pinot Gris began turning up in odd corners of the wine world under murky aliases: In France alone, Pinot Gris is also known as Tokay d'Alsace, Pinot Beurot in Burgundy and Malvoisie in the Loire.
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