Chablis might be one of the world's most misunderstood wines. Many people probably associate Chablis (pronounced "sha blee") with cheap, white wines from California in the 1970s. Not anymore. After a ...

When it comes to chardonnay, nowhere does the grape produce more distinctive wines than in France’s Burgundy. While many of them are prohibitively expensive for value-conscious wine drinkers, it is ...

There was a time when most Americans thought “chablis” was a generic white wine blend, often packaged in a jug. You might even find “chablis” that was pink. What a travesty. True Chablis is chardonnay ...

French Chablis is among the world’s most delightfully idiosyncratic and complex wines. It’s not much like other chardonnays, including French white Burgundy, which is made about 100 miles to the ...

The wine lunch began with contemplation of a rock: a mottled, ancient stone, riddled with 150-million-year-old fossils. A Frenchman, Jean-François Bordet, had brought it to the table. We passed it ...

LIGNORELLES, France (AP) — On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over their shoulders, drenched in sweat as they climb the ...

In many ways, I felt like a newbie wine writer all over again. The subject matter was fairly new (the Chablis region of France). It was a format I’m not used to (blind tasting ten wines in one sitting ...

THERE IS NO greater expression of chardonnay in the world than Chablis. We aren’t talking about the ghastly California jug wine that uses who-knows-what kinds of grapes grown in the arid Central ...

The many variations of chardonnay sold in America have a wide and devoted audience, with the tastes centering on the smooth taste from barrel fermentation and malolactic fermentation. The chardonnay ...

THERE IS NO greater expression of chardonnay in the world than Chablis. We aren’t talking about the ghastly California jug wine that uses who-knows-what kinds of grapes grown in the arid Central ...

PARIS - A violent hailstorm ravaged vineyards on May 1 in Chablis in the French region of Burgundy, with hailstones the size of table tennis balls slicing off leaves and damaging vines, winemakers ...