Article: Chablis: A wine to serve with turkey, yams.(Flavor/Gracious Living)

Byline: JIM RAPER

BY JIM RAPER

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

VERSATILITY MAKES chablis a wine to keep in mind this time of year. If you want a real treat at your Thanksgiving feast, or at any feast during the next couple of months, splurge on this noble white wine.

The wine is made from chardonnay grapes grown in the far northwestern reaches of France's Burgundy region. The viticulture district around the towns of Chablis and Auxerre is nearly as far north as Champagne, and the chardonnay of Chablis has tart minerality similar to what we find in bubbly Champagne. Even those Chablis wines that are exposed to new oak - and few are - do not have ...

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