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Article: Americans missing out on the charms of Chablis.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2007
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Byline: Bill Daley
Chablis can trigger an involuntary shudder in those of us who are a certain age. That's because we nearly drowned 30 years ago in a flood of cheap California "chablis" made with everything but.
It was a wine so unpleasant many of us have shied away from Chablis, the noble white wine made in France's Burgundy region. Complicating matters more, Chablis is made from the chardonnay grape, a varietal whose blowzy, butterball persona (again, blame California) has triggered a backlash with consumers demanding ABC _ "Anything But Chardonnay."
It's important to realize one thing: French Chablis is nothing like California "chablis" or, ...
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