Enjoying California Chardonnay With Meals At Home

Eating at home is now very much a regular activity. Whether the meals are home cooked, takeaways or delivered, enjoying a glass or two of wine with your meals, can be a wonderful way to enhance the enjoyment of your meal at home. California Chardonnay is America’s most popular white wine. There are a variety of styles, ranging from steely, unoaked with hints of minerality, to rich, ripe styles with butter, vanilla and toasty oak flavours. The spectrum of flavours in California Chardonnay, is as diverse as the areas where the grapes are sourced.

- Daniel Chia

Here are a couple of wines that are available in Singapore retail outlets and will pair very nicely with some of Singapore’s popular local dishes.

1 2017 Beringer, “Founders’ Estate”, Chardonnay, California, USA

Clear, with light lemon colour. Clean nose with medium intensity aromas including, pineapple, peach, pear, and vanilla oak. Dry with medium acidity, low tannin, and medium body, with ripe pineapple, peach, mango and vanilla oak flavour characteristics and a long finish.

2 2016 Sterling Vineyards, “Vintner ’s Collection”, Chardonnay, California, USA

Clear, with medium lemon colour. Clean nose with medium intensity aromas including, apricot, pear, vanilla, cinnamon and toasty oak. Dry with low acidity, light to medium tannin, and full-body, with grapefruit, pear, vanilla, cinnamon and toasty oak flavour characteristics and a long finish.