Chardonnay between $10 and $25

California’s Santa Cruz Mountains are the best Chardonnay region now one really knows – mainly because the flagship winery here, Mount Eden, commands pretty astounding prices. Alfaro is taking advantage of those great... Read More

Unless you taste a lot of California Chardonnay, it can be hard to realize how big an accomplishment Bartholomew Broadbent has pulled off here. It's 100% Chardonnay, picked ripe and full of pear and stone fruit flavors perfectly... Read More

A delicious, fruit-filled, Chardonnay with a whiff of oak for complexity and an easy, mouthwateringly dry, finish. It's 100% Chardonnay from Stellenbosch fermented and aged in French oak, jam-paced with ripe stone fruit, pear... Read More

Lower ABV From 40 year-old vines in the little village of Peronne, this delivers the lovely richness and depth we expect from Gentilhommes even in a cool harvest like 2024. The 15% of the wine aged in oak (the rest in steel) helps... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Like a good Chablis, the wine is very refreshing. Sticking to its roots (literally) the vines grow on that all important Kimmeridgian marl soils of Chablis. It boasts charactes of green apple, lemon, and... Read More

Lower ABV Vincent Dampt makes straight ahead, no oak, no fuss, Chablis. As Vinous writes, this has a delineated bouquet with green apple, pear and granite scents that gain intensity with aeration. The palate is well-balanced with... Read More

Lower ABV We’re not even going to try to explain the premise behind Curt Schalchlin and Andrew Jones’s “Fable” approach to naming wines. But the wine in the bottle here is very good Chardonnay indeed, loaded... Read More

Normally you see a nicely priced Chardonnay from the South of France and can safely assume it was done in tank to emphasize the ripe pineapple, pear and apple fruit. Here there was so much fruit – really, gobs of it –... Read More

Lower ABV A richly textured, nicely spiced, no-oak Macon Chardonnay here that’s ready for seafood, roast chicken, or just sipping. The combination of old vines – up to 70 years – a fine site at the foot of the... Read More

Another great release of this, our all-time best-selling premium California Chardonnay. As always, it blends fruit from across the Sonoma Coast AVA including Carneros, the southern Russian River and cooler sites to the west. As... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Mary Taylor's MT3 wines come from smaller producers like Michel Paquet's tiny plots spread across five villages in the Macon. In 2024, it's a gentle, easygoing, Chardonnay showing delicate pineapple... Read More

As you may have already discovered, getting the alcohol out of wine often involves taking all the flavor, too. Newblood is an Australian maker that' worked around that problem. Here you'll find a buttery, lightly oaked,... Read More

Another great vintage, and last year's 90 point Vinous review very much applies: Soft, supple and absolutely delicious. Light tropical notes, lemon confit, white flowers and bright acids give striking nuance as well as character.... Read More