Old World v. New World: A Case for Terroir - Chardonnay

and really dig deep into how terroir affects this grape. 
Despite incursions of popularity from Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay remains the world’s most popular white wine grape. While Chardonnay is grown all over the world, it reaches its highest quality levels in the Burgundy region of France and in Northern and Southern California. During this exciting tasting, we will taste 8 outstanding Chardonnay—four from Burgundy and four from California. From Burgundy, we taste the iconic Grand Cru  Jadot Chevalier Montrachet Les Demoiselles. This remarkable wine retails for $500, twice the cost of the tasting as well as wines from Chablis, Cote Chalonaise, and Macon—the 150 stretch in Burgundy from north to south where Chardonnay is the king of the white wine grapes. From California, we will taste wines from Sonoma Coast and the Russian River in northern California, Santa Cruz in central California and Santa Barbara in southern California.