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!

Vicenza DOC Chardonnay Torre dei Vescovi 2024 Colli Vicentini

Chablis AOC Premier Cru Les Forêts 2023 Patrick Piuze

Chardonnay Canti

Champagne Brut Blanc de Blancs AOC Second Skin Ruinart

Champagne AOC Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes Damien Hugot

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

Salento IGT Chardonnay Numen 2024 Paolo Leo

Champagne AOC Extra Brut Thierry Fournier

Puligny Montrachet AOC Le Trezin 2021 Joseph Colin

Russian River Valley AVA Chardonnay One-Sixteen 2021 Kosta Browne

Meursault AOC 2023 Joseph Drouhin

Franciacorta DOCG Brut Millesimato 2018 Lo Sparviere

Champagne AOC Brut Nature Chouilly Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Monographie Pierre Legras

Champagne AOC Premier Cru Extra-Brut Parallèle Blanc de Blancs Colin

Champagne AOC Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Derrière la Cabane Hélène Beaugrand

Chablis AOC Grand Cru Vaudésir 2020 Louis Moreau

Pernand-Vergelesses AOC 1er Cru Sous Frétille 2022 Domaine Antonin Guyon

Bourgogne AOP Chardonnay 2022 Domaine Jacques Prieur