Buttery wine has been on my mind. Butter is what comes to many people’s minds when they hear “California Chardonnay.” The category earned that stereotype during the 1980s and ‘90s, an era so abhorrent ...

Available in grocery stores across the U.S., Butter's bright yellow label has become a trusted symbol of premium wines that deliver exceptional quality at remarkable value. Earlier this year, the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — “Buttery” is a term commonly used by wine enthusiasts and casual drinkers alike when describing a full-bodied chardonnay. But one Napa winemaker took boxed wine purveyor Franzia ...

To our surprise, here is a question we have been asked with increasing frequency over the past six months: Where can I get a buttery American chardonnay? Or, as Jacqueline Jenkins of Riverside, Calif.

Whenever I have a chance to sample Hanzell wines, I’m reminded that this is how classic California Chardonnay is supposed to ...

Thanksgiving’s diverse menu – from succulent turkey, tart cranberry sauce and roasted vegetables to hearty stuffing and sweet ...

We know there’s a lot of people out there that don’t like or won’t drink Chardonnay. There’s even a group of people who subscribe to the ABC mantra—anything but Chardonnay—but we’re here to tell you ...

At the Wine Warehouse in Greensboro, N.C., owner Mark Lile-King has seen it, too. "In the last six months, that taste profile has become more and more popular with our customers," he said. Lile-King, ...

Great lover of butter that I am (I have a record as a butter thief as a child, to which my mother can attest), I confess that I was nonetheless suspicious of “buttery” as an adjective for wine. I have ...

Yet the variety faced some skepticism among the small but select sample of readers who took part in our recent Wine School examination of Oregon chardonnays. Perhaps this should not have been ...

Winemakers live at the mercy of fickle consumers. In 2004, it only took one hit movie — Sideways — to kick off a Pinot Noir craze that continues to this day, and to arm consumers who wanted to act ...

I got my start in wine with Chardonnay, a million years or so ago in 1997, helping out with the harvest at a winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The winery's Chardonnay was emblematic of the era: ripe ...