At WineBid.com, the auction site where I found the Chablis, most wines are offered individually.
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Try an ice-cold platter of the rare, tight-shelled Cranberry Island oysters, from off the Maine coast, with a decent Chablis.
When you buy a French wine labeled Chablis, you are always getting a pure chardonnay wine made in Chablis, period.
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An average American, for instance, would choose a chardonnay over a Chablis, even though they are the same wine, Day contends.
Of course, in France there is no Thanksgiving, and Chablis is most famous there as the wine of choice with seafood.
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Yet the soils of Sancerre can be quite similar to the soils of Champagne and Burgundy, especially the Burgundy region of Chablis.
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Their hedonistic affair is full of Chablis and long discussions about famous writers and publishers of the time (Martin Amis, Tom Maschler).
Once the labels were revealed and I tasted the wines some more, non-blind, I realized that the grand cru Chablis was probably better than St.
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We're drinking Chablis and dishing des bons mots to be absurd.
If the dish contains lots of raw vegetables, pair it with a light, fresh wine, such as an Old World Sauvignon Blanc, a white Burgundy or a Chablis.
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That's why a Chablis is so often my default choice.
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Its individual vineyards are designated by the government reflecting their ultimate quality potential, the very highest being Grand Cru, followed by Premier (or 1er) Cru, follow by simply Chablis.
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You can serve them with a lightly dressed mache salad and a chilled bottle of crisp, dry white wine such as a French Chablis or a California Chardonnay.
White wines that are high in acidity like German and Austrian Riesling, not to mention Chablis, Champagne and Chenin Blanc can improve for decades, though much depends on producer and vintage.
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Indeed, Sancerre is physically closer to Chablis than many other regions in the Loire Valley, and the best of its wines have much in common with those flinty white Burgundies.
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Below this is Petit Chablis, but given how little wine is produced and exported to the United States, you are not especially likely to see this lowest classification on the shelf.
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Just as Champagne, which is a place, gives its name to a wine that in France is highly regulated and may contain only three (or less) specific grapes, so it is with Chablis.
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On a warm night, Alice, Bruno, and I raced through a bottle of the good house Chablis and the plate of sausages and radishes that came with a little pot of butter as soon as we'd ordered.
Chablis has similar characteristics but in a more refined and less aggressively crisp way, which is why they pair so well with the wildly mixed but predominantly non-spicy, white meat, bread and vegetable-based cuisine that is Thanksgiving dinner.
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Chablis is the single region on earth most associated with chardonnay grape, where it is has been grown forever and is generally recognized as the best, and the entire legally designated region is just over 10, 000 acres, a pretty small production.
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We tallied the average costs of some key elements of a first date: alcohol (specifically, a 1.5 liter bottle of Livingston Cellars, Gallo Chablis or Chenin Blanc wine), food (a 11- to 12-inch pizza from Pizza Hut), entertainment (an evening movie ticket), grooming (a barbershop visit), suiting up (a dry-cleaning bill) and transportation (price per gallon of gasoline).
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