Word: chardonnay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, exception must be taken to your comment that "California's sparkling wines are rarely worth the nose tickling." A small quaffing of bottle-fermented Korbel champagne brut (or sec), Hanns Kornell champagne third-generation brut, or Weibel champagne Pinot Chardonnay brut will certainly prove the worthiness of California "bubbly...
...good French winemakers, studiously disdaining such modern advances as concrete fermentation vats and screw-cap bottle tops. Their wine is labeled with the name of the grape from which it is made, so that buyers can approximate the European equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay, for example, is related to a Pouilly-Fuissé or a Chablis, white Riesling to a dry Rhine, Sauvignon Blanc to a superior dry Graves; in the reds. Cabernet Sauvignon is like red Bordeaux, Pinot Noir like lesser Burgundy, Camay Beaujolais similar to the French Beaujolais...
...Petri's Viva Vino. For quality wines, the experts stick to the Napa Valley for reds, Livermore for whites and Sonoma for Rhines. Among the leaders: Louis Martini's Zinfandel and Folle Blanche, Inglenook's Cabernet Sauvignon, Wente Brothers' Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Chardonnay, Charles Krug's Camay and Camay Beaujolais. California's sparkling wines, on the other hand, are rarely worth the nose tickling; U.S. champagne is almost exclusively the province of New York State...
With their growing reputation among connoisseurs, U.S. vintners no longer have to advertise their wares as "Burgundy-type domestic" or a "California Chablis." The day has not yet come when Pinot Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon are as well known as Medoc or Bordeaux. But the best measure of U.S. vintners' growing reputation is that their best wines can now hold their own on any wine list, and under their own names...