Tagged: chardonnay

Palmaz Vineyards & Cave Winery Napa Valley, California

Palmaz Vineyards, this place is very new to Napa Valley but already making giant leap.  Beautiful estate with an impressive cave winery.  The entire production takes place inside a massive cave, 4-story high winery eliminates the use of...

Wines of Champagne, France

Geography & Climate Champagne is the most northerly wine region in France, about 90miles Northeast of Paris.  The climate here is extreme; bone-chilling cold in winter with damaging frost but hot, humid in the summer.  Once a seabed...

Wines of Burgundy (Bourgognes), France

Bordeaux might rule the West of France with its Cabernet and Merlot blends but on the other side of the country, by the border of Italy lies another magnificent wine region, it’s intriguing, elegant, complex and definitely world-class,...

Wines of Alsace, France

Geography & Climate Alsace is a thin strip of land running along the Vosges Mountain on the West and the Rhein River to the East. Only after Champagne, it is the second most northerly wine region in France...

Wines of Rioja, Spain

In Rioja, aging wine traced back to the late 1700s, a practice inspired by Bordeaux region of France.  Although at the time larger barrels were used.  By the mid 1800s, Rioja wine landscape experienced major growth as result...

Wines of Navarra, Spain

Geography & Climate Navarra has always been a popular wine region in north of Spain, it is a close neighbor to the ever famous Rioja region to the south. A stone throw away from Rioja and again a...

Wines of Patagonia, Argentina

Geography & Climate From the most northernly region of Salta, where conditions are harsh, 1200 miles south of it is Patagonia.  Patagonia shares little similarity with Salta.  Although Patagonia also has its back against the Andes mountain, snow-capped...

Wines of Overberg and Walker Bay, South Africa

Geography & Climate Locating at the very tip south of South Africa, its close proximity to the ocean, Overberg enjoy cooler climate with significant coastal influence.  It is ideal for cool-climate varietals such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay....

Wines of South Australia

Geography & Climate Right by the coast of St. Vincent situates the fifth largest city in Australia, Adelaide.  Asides of being a coastal city, Adelaide is surrounded by some of Australia’s best wine regions, some are in fact...