Chenin
Chenin
Mulderbosch 2025 Chenin Blanc Stellenbosch
South African White
$27.99
Green apple and white peach develop into pear and ripe melon, with a subtle savoury note beneath the fruit. Partial maturation in neutral wood adds breadth without obvious oak flavour. Fresh, textured and dry, the palate finishes with orchard fruit and a light mineral edge. Pair with roast chicken, seafood or creamy vegetable dishes.
Château Moncontour 2025 Vouvray Sec
French White
$39.99
Green apple and ripe pear open with lemon, apricot and a light touch of honey. The dry palate is crisp yet satin-textured, with lively acidity carrying orchard and tropical fruit. A subtle nutty richness adds breadth before the wine closes cleanly, with bright citrus and mineral freshness.
Gérard Bertrand 2023 Héritage An 825 Brut Crémant de Limoux
French Sparkling
$44.99
White flowers, honey and green apple meet warm toast on a complex, aromatic nose. The palate is crisp and elegant, with fine bubbles giving the fruit a creamy, polished texture. Lemon and fresh orchard notes keep the profile bright, leading to a clean, balanced and quietly savoury finish.
Moulin Touchais Coteaux du Layon 2007
French Dessert
$94.99
Unctuous yet vibrant, with honey, baked apple, saffron, guava and mango lifted by dusty lemon, dried herbs, grass and fresh mint. The palate is generous and layered, balancing tropical sweetness with the high, graceful acidity that gives mature Chenin its poise. Long and luscious without becoming cloying, it suits blue cheese, baked apple or lightly spiced pâté.
Château Moncontour 2022 Vouvray Cuvée Prédilection Brut Magnum 1.5 L
French Sparkling
$99.99
Fine bubbles accompany floral aromas, apricot and a persistent finish. Made entirely from Chenin in Vouvray, this sparkling white shows pale straw colour and balance. The cuvée is produced by the traditional method. The floral and apricot details sit beside its fine mousse, pale colour and balanced character. It is presented here in a 1.5-litre magnum format.
Moulin Touchais Coteaux du Layon 1998
French Dessert
$96.99
Brilliant gold in the glass, with rich apricot, baked apple and dried fruit joined by honeyed spice and a subtle botrytised complexity. The palate is luscious yet disciplined, balancing mature sweetness with a bright seam of acidity and gently savoury depth. Long and poised on the finish, it is excellent with blue cheese, tarte tatin or fruit-based desserts.
Famille Joly 2016 Les Vieux Clos Savennières
French White
$99.99
Bruised apple and ripe pear open with ginger, coriander and a savoury hint of hay. The palate is dry, rich and layered, combining orchard fruit with honeycomb, beeswax and saline minerality. Nutty depth, baking spice and a light waxy texture carry through the long, distinctive finish.
Baumard 2023 La Calèche
French White
$39.99
Floral and lightly mineral, with a calm, understated aromatic profile. The medium-bodied palate is balanced and structured, carrying enough freshness and shape to remain composed through the finish. Its clean lines and restrained character make it especially versatile at the table. Pair with shellfish, white fish, poultry, green vegetables or goat cheese.
Spier 2024 Signature Chenin Blanc Western Cape
South African White
$19.99
Pale straw colour has a green tinge. Green guava, ripe peach and pear sit beside lime zest, while juicy tropical fruit accompanies a crisp profile. Balanced acidity supports a lingering finish. The Chenin Blanc was destemmed and lightly crushed, followed by brief skin contact and pressing. Free-run juice settled overnight before cool fermentation with selected yeast, and the wine remained on fine lees without oak.
Veuve Devienne Blanc de Blancs Brut
French Sparkling
$21.99
Pale yellow colour accompanies peach, mirabelle plum and white cherry, with a mineral note. The acidity is dynamic, the fruit remains present and the bubbles are fine. Airen and Ugni Blanc account for 80 percent of the blend, while Chenin and Chardonnay make up the remaining 20 percent. Classified as Vin Mousseux Brut, the wine is dry and suited to service as an aperitif.
Santa Julia 2024 Chenin Blanc
Argentinian White
$21.99
White fruit, floral and mineral notes shape this dry Chenin. The body is light, the texture delicate and the acidity lively, with no oak influence. Apricot and peach also appear, while the finish is fruity. The wine is made entirely from Chenin grown in Mendoza and contains 12.5 percent alcohol with 1.7 grams per litre of sugar.
Holden Manz 2020 Reserve Chenin Blanc
South African White
$27.99
Golden-yellow colour leads to kumquat, honeysuckle, quince and citrus blossom. The palate is rounded and medium to full in body, with crisp acidity, yellow fruit, fresh ginger and pineapple through a long finish. Chenin Blanc comes from Simonsberg/Paarl and Perdeberg. Wild-yeast fermentation uses barrels and tanks, with part of the wine spending twelve months in French oak and regular fine-lees stirring.
La Lisse 2025 Soie d’Ivoire Chenin Blanc
French White
$28.99
Round and supple, with rich toasted notes from oak ageing and a gentle citrus character. The palate is densely fruity, led by peach flambée. Chenin Blanc grows on cool clay-and-limestone slopes in the Pyrenean foothills, where later picking brings full ripeness while retaining crispness. Partial vinification and maturation use new and seasoned French oak, and the wine carries HVE3 sustainable certification.
Cognato Non-Alcoholic Chenin Blanc
South African Non-Alcoholic Wine
$28.99
Citrus and cut grass define a fresh profile with crisp acidity and a fine mouthfeel. Fully ripened Chenin Blanc grapes undergo controlled-temperature fermentation before the wine is dealcoholised to less than zero-point-five percent alcohol. The fruit comes from South Africa’s Western Cape, where a long, cool growing season and dry conditions are documented for this release.
Deligeroy Crémant de Loire Brut NV
French Sparkling
$32.99
Fine, persistent bubbles rise through a pale-yellow colour. The bouquet combines Chenin freshness, Chardonnay flowers and Cabernet Franc fruit. A lively entry opens into a round structure with white-flower flavours, followed by a long finish of juicy pear and peach. The grapes are pressed gently and fermented cool. A second fermentation takes place in bottle, and the wine ages on its lees for at least twelve months in tuffeau cellars.
Château Moncontour 2016 Vouvray Moelleux
French Dessert
$49.99
This still white is made from Chenin Blanc and classified as moelleux. Alcohol is twelve percent. The château stands at the western entrance to Vouvray and overlooks the Loire. Built in the fifteenth century and renovated in the eighteenth, the property includes more than one hundred hectares of vines and a cellar beneath the hillside.
Lightning Rock 2024 Arete Vineyard Chenin Blanc Pét-Nat
American Sparkling
$35.99
Citrus blossom, green apple and pear skin meet chalky minerality and a subtle yeast note. The palate is energetic, with bold bubbles and a crisp finish. Organically farmed Chenin comes from Arete Vineyard in Othello, Washington. The fruit was whole-cluster pressed, settled overnight and racked off gross lees. Fermentation began in stainless steel, then completed in bottle before disgorgement after five months on the lees.
Château Moncontour 2025 Vouvray Demi-Sec
French White
$41.99
Chenin gives a pale-yellow colour with green tints. Citrus, white flowers, apricot and green apple accompany a rich, fresh profile. The palate is soft, round and sweet, with acidity and an almost dry finish. Fruit comes from the La Monaco plot on chalky clay soil. Fermentation lasts one month in temperature-controlled tanks. Maturation lasts three months with fining and regular racking.
Screenplay Wines 2010 White Blend Carneros
American White
$43.49
Flower and cream notes sit alongside peach custard, honeysuckle and papaya. The blend brings together Chardonnay, Viognier, Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc and carries 14.2 percent alcohol. Carneros vineyards lie one to four miles from San Pablo Bay, where cool afternoon breezes are often strong and daytime temperatures rarely exceed eighty degrees. The appellation’s average growing season runs from April 1 to November 1.
Château Moncontour Vouvray Brut
French Sparkling
$41.99
Fine bubbles accompany white-fruit and floral scents. The palate is lively and powerful, with apricot and a rich, harmonious character. This white sparkling wine is made entirely from Chenin in Vouvray using the traditional method. The cuvée comes from a family estate in the Loire Valley. The wine contains 12.5 percent alcohol and 6.6 grams per litre of residual sugar.
Spier 2019 21 Gables Chenin Blanc
South African White
$51.99
Dry-farmed Chenin vines grow in decomposed Malmesbury shale on the Tygerberg hills, fifteen kilometres from the ocean. Six hours of skin contact and overnight settling precede fermentation in French oak vessels of several sizes. The wine remains on its lees in barrel for fourteen months. White peach, pear, toasted almond and wood spice accompany a creamy palate and white-grapefruit acidity.
Bernard Baudry 2020 Chinon Blanc Le Domaine
French White
$57.99
Chenin provides the base for this Loire white. Bright straw with a watery hue, it offers Jonathan apple, pear, honeysuckle, quince and light spicy musk. The palate brings ripe pear and baked apple with good weight and a soft, rich texture. Further quince and spice are present. The finish is dry and fresh, with a medium-to-long spicy aftertaste.
Clos du Tue-Boeuf 2020 Tutti Frutti Rosé
French Rosé
$47.99
An experimental field blend brings together Gamay, Pineau d’Aunis, Chenin, Menu Pineau and Meslier. The grapes come from a 0.3-hectare parcel on flint clay and are purchased from organic growers. The vines are ninety years old, and the reported yield is twenty-five hectolitres per hectare. Fermentation and ageing last eight months in a Burgundy barrel.
Arnaud Lambert 2023 Les Parcelles Chenin Blanc
French White
$48.99
Almond, Granny Smith apple, honeyed flowers and mineral notes appear in a dry, delicate profile with present acidity. The wine is made entirely from Chenin Blanc grown on tuffeau limestone with sand and clay topsoil. Natural fermentation remains below seventeen degrees Celsius. Ageing lasts six to eight months in stainless steel, followed by light filtration and the first sulphur addition at bottling.
Domaine La Paleine 2024 Saumur Blanc
French White
$51.99
Apple, pear, white flowers and honey appear in a dry, medium-bodied Chenin with present acidity and a delicate texture. The wine has no oak character and contains less than 1.2 grams of residual sugar per litre. It carries Organic and Biodynamic classifications. The grapes are hand harvested, and fermentation uses indigenous yeasts in stainless steel; maturation lasts twelve months in stainless steel.
Swerwer 2023 Chenin Blanc
South African White
$49.99
Citrus pith, Bosc pear and fynbos accompany a fine texture and a saline finish. Chenin comes from four dry-farmed, granitic Paardeberg vineyards, with vines averaging forty years. Around five percent of the fruit receives skin contact. Native fermentation and ten months on lees take place in older French barrels, while the finished wine is medium bodied.
Intellego 2020 Chenin Blanc
South African White
$49.99
Hay, naartjie, peach and cut apple appear with fresh acidity and a gently savoury finish. The medium-bodied wine is made entirely from Chenin grown on a single Paardeberg hillside vineyard of nineteen-year-old bush vines. Hand-harvested fruit is whole-bunch pressed with solids, and spontaneous fermentation takes place in neutral 500-litre French foudres. The wine ages eleven months on gross lees without bâtonnage and is bottled unfined and unfiltered with a small sulphur addition.
Domaine de la Paleine Saumur Brut NV
French Sparkling
$52.99
Chenin, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc and Grolleau Gris make up the blend in proportions of sixty, twenty, ten and ten percent. The biodynamic vineyard is Demeter-certified, with clay-limestone soil and twenty-five-year-old vines. After stainless-steel fermentation, the wine referments in bottle to produce fine bubbles. Ageing lasts eighteen to thirty-six months. Disgorgement uses no added sugar or sulphites.
Domaine Mosse 2021 Bisou Vin de France
French Red
$53.99
Raspberry colour accompanies blackberry, cardamom and fresh fig. The wine is light and fruity, with a direct attack and a tangy finish. Grolleau Noir, Grolleau Gris, Gamay, Cabernet Franc and Chenin are vinified separately with four-to-ten-day semi-carbonic macerations. Ageing lasts eight months in foudre. Indigenous yeasts are used, and the wine is bottled unfiltered with twenty-four milligrams per litre of total sulphur.
Harvey & Harriet 2022 White Blend San Luis Obispo County
American White
$53.99
Tangerine, pineapple and honeydew accompany a creamy texture and bright acidity. The blend is fifty percent Chardonnay, eighteen percent Chenin Blanc, fourteen percent Grüner Veltliner, ten percent Albariño and eight percent Viognier. Mineral, spice and lees notes are also present, and the finish shows understated oak. The wine comes from San Luis Obispo County on California’s Central Coast.