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Wine Details
Price:
$14.99 per bottle
Description:
ur Chardonnay is estate-grown and food-friendly with complex, toasty oak, ripe apple, and a crisp, mineral character. Food pairings: Roasted beet, caramelized onion, and Stilton grilled pizza; feel-good mushroom soup; a salad of frisée with poached eggs and crispy bacon vinaigrette; or farm-raised chicken, seared and braised in Hopkins Chardonnay, with garlic, fennel, picholine olives, and vine-ripened tomatoes.
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Varietal Definition
Chardonnay:
Chardonnay is by far the most widely planted grape crop in California and dominates California’s cooler, coastal, quality wine regions. The natural varietal ‘taste and smell’ of Chardonnay is surprisingly unfamiliar to many wine drinkers, as its true character is often guised with dominating winemaking signatures. Chardonnay’s rather subdued primary fruit characteristics lean toward the crisp fruitiness of apples, pears and lemon, but the variety’s full body is capable of supporting a host of complementary characteristics, such as oak, butter and vanilla. Regardless of what is the appropriate style for Chardonnay, the varietal continues to dominate vineyard plantings in every corner of the world. Close attention to clonal selection has made this broad geographic and climactic range of Chardonnay viable in thoughtful viticultural hands.
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