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Chardonnay Bourgogne Chablis vin blanc tranquille

Origin

Chardonnay, small village in Mâconnais

Growing regions

France, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, USA, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Argentina, California, Australia, South Africa

Also known as

Morillon blanc, Pinot Chardonnay

Chablis — the most northerly of the great Burgundian appellations, in the Yonne — is the purest and most mineral expression of Chardonnay. On Kimmeridgian limestones (250 million years old) bristling with oyster fossils, Chardonnay acquires an incomparable mineral tension.