Chardonnay Day

Today is Chardonnay Day, a day dedicated to the world's most famous and widespread white grape variety. Capable of producing a wine of extraordinary qualities, Chardonnay remains, especially in evolution, a versatile and promising emblem for composing pure wines and intriguing blends of extreme charm. Its close kinship with France, to which the Burgundy wine tradition has always delivered admirable masterpieces, has not prevented this variety from also being bred in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Chile. Italy, too, has long welcomed it as a valid expression of a generous and adaptable wine that can express itself in different ways without losing charm and elegance.

Different climates and latitudes make Chardonnay safe and ample, qualified to produce fresh, subtle and essential wines as in the Chablis region, but also rich and almost opulent wines as in the case of California and Sicily. In addition, the ageing in wood, so decisive for the success of Burgundy, configures a true production style and almost a vocation to achieve maximum organoleptic expression in refined wines with great personality such as the examples produced in the Mâconnais and the Côte de Beaune: these are the wines in which tropical fruits and the woody notes of nuts such as almond and hazelnut meet the toastiness of the barrels for a more integrated and complex flavour.

No less prestigious, the Champagne region is composed of almost 30% Chardonnay, where it is blended with Pinot Noir, or vinified alone (blanc de blancs).

From the fresh, floral bouquet to notes of ripe fruit, in short, Chardonnay is so versatile that it really does please everyone. Celebrate it with us, with this selection of the best Chardonnays, selected for you by the Vino.com sommeliers!

Champagne AOC Extra Brut Saint-Thierry Chartogne-Taillet

Chassagne-Montrachet AOC Vieilles Vignes 2021 Domaine Amiot Guy et Fils

Meursault AOC 2022 Joseph Drouhin

Collio DOC Chardonnay Gräfin de La Tour 2019 Villa Russiz

Bourgogne AOC Chardonnay Laforêt 2022 Drouhin

Chassagne-Montrachet AOC 1er Cru Les Macherelles 2021 Domaine Amiot Guy et Fils

Champagne AOC Grand Cru Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Cuvée Neyrot 2012 Demière-Ansiot

Mâcon-Villages AOC Au Poirier Chanin 2020 Domaine Pierre Boisson

Champagne AOC Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Les Carelles Jacques Selosse

Champagne AOC Brut Nature Les Moineaux 2017 Minière F&R

Chassagne-Montrachet AOC 2022 Joseph Drouhin

Meursault AOC 2021 Olivier Leflaive

Viré-Clessé AOC Quintaine 2022 Guillemot-Michel

Savigny-Lès-Beaune AOC Les Goudelettes 2022 Le Puy de L'Ours

Marsannay AOC 2021 Domaine Bruno Clair

Napa Valley Chardonnay AVA 2021 Robert Mondavi Winery

Chassagne-Montrachet AOC 1er Cru Les Vergers 2021 Domaine Amiot Guy et Fils

Arbois AOC Chardonnay Les Graviers 2020 Domaine A. & M. Tissot