The ABC's of Chardonnay Reconsidered

About this episode

This episode reexamines Chardonnay, highlighting its diverse expressions influenced by different soils.

Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir Chardonnay has been mislabeled as predictable for so long that a lot of wine lovers stopped tasting it with fresh eyes. We’re changing that by treating Chardonnay like what it really is: a translator for place and a scoreboard for decisions in the cellar. From my window in Jerusalem, we trace how limestone, clay, and volcanic basalt can reshape the same grape into radically different expressions, whether it’s a mineral-driven Judean Hills white or a f...

People in this episode

Host: Solomon Simon Jacob

Topics covered

• Chardonnay
• wine
• terroir
• mineral-driven
• cellar decisions

Keywords

• Chardonnay
• wine tasting
• terroir
• Judean Hills
• mineral-driven

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Chardonnay

Places: Jerusalem, Judean Hills

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