Chardonnay

California’s top takes on this ever-popular wine are among the best whites you can put on the table this season.

Up and down the West Coast, winemakers are crafting beautiful iterations of the white most commonly associated with Alsace.

Bottles from the West Sonoma Coast deserve a slot in your cellar now.

A New World region with some Old World sensibilities.

An alternative for those turned off by buttery California Chards.

These bottles all scored more than 90 points and taste like wines three times their price.

Keep your social life alive and learn a little something, all while helping an industry stay afloat. 

California’s top wine producers are turning out bottles of the country’s favorite white that are radically different from the over-oaked, butter bombs of the past. It’s about time.

The vintners behind these wines chase perfection by teasing out the taste of a very particular patch of dirt.