| 单词 |
Chardonnay |
| 释义 |
Chardonnay|ʃardɔne|
[Fr.]
A white grape used for making champagne, white burgundy, and other wines, now grown widely around the world; the vine on which the grape grows. Also, a wine made from this grape. Cf. Pinot Chardonnay s.v. Pinot.
1911Encycl. Brit. XXIX. (Index) 165/2 Chardonay (vine): see Pineau. 1935Schoonmaker & Marvel Compl. Wine Bk. v. 127 The majority of Italian gourmets now drink the so-called ‘Gran Spumante’ (which is made from the same Pinot and Chardonnay grapes as Champagne) rather than Asti. 1946A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. VIII. 129/2 Pinot, pineau, the variety of grapes, both black and white, from which the best champagne and the best burgundies are made. There are a number of the noble Pinot family: Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Chardonnay, etc. 1959W. James Word-bk. Wine 50 Chardonnay, another name for the white pinot grape which produces Chablis and other white burgundies, and enters with its black brother the pinot noir into the usual champagne blends. In Australia Chardonnay has been adopted as a proprietary name for a sauternes-type wine. 1965A. Sichel Penguin Bk. Wines iii. 145 In the fine white wine areas the grape is the Chardonnay and Pinot Blanc, two very similar varieties, and in the cheaper areas the Aligoté. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 4 Dec. 8/5 Edmond Maudiere, the chef de cave at Moet & Chandon who came to America to direct the making and blending of the wines, said he found California's Chardonnay (the principal white grape of champagne) too fruity to make the dry blanc de blancs. 1986Independent 6 Dec. 12/6 A heavy-weight panel of producers..told us that this was a ‘chardonnay year’ — that is Beaunespeak for ‘a lousy year for the reds’. |
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