Chardonnay became an important part of that strategy.

In the 1990s, Chardonnay became the second most widely planted white grape variety in Argentina-second only Torrontés.

The sketch originally used such reasonable categories as " Celebrities ," " Movies ," and " Popular Music ," but as the celebrities ' ineptitude grew more apparent the categories became more childish, even including categories whose titles suggest that the contestants will be able to infer the correct response without even reading the clues, such as " Colors that End in ' Urple '," " States that Begin with ' Californ '," " Famous ' Kareem Abdul-Jabbars '," " Black Comedians Named ' Whoopi '," and " Drummers Named ' Ringo ,'" and categories that do not require any responses whatsoever, such as " Don't Do Anything " ( where all three contestants are required to remain motionless in order to receive money ), " I Have a Chardonnay " ( where the contestant automatically gets the points and Trebek would get to have a glass of wine ), and " Automatic Points " ( where a contestant is " automatically awarded the points " just for choosing a dollar value from the category ).

In California, Merlot can range from very fruity simple wines ( sometimes referred to by critics as a " red Chardonnay ") to more serious, barrel aged examples.

The Chardonnay grape itself is very neutral, with many of the flavors commonly associated with the grape being derived from such influences as terroir and oak.

While Chardonnay can adapt to almost all vineyard soils, the three it seems to like most are chalk, clay and limestone, all very prevalent throughout Chardonnay's traditional " homeland ".

This confusion between Pinot blanc and Chardonnay was very pervasive throughout northern Italy, where the two vines grew interspersed in the vineyard and were blended in winemaking.

This is partly because Pinot noir and Pinot Meunier produce very coarse and heavy wines that lack the finesse and balance that Chardonnay brings to the mix.

Therefore the Chardonnay grapes do not fully develop its fruit flavors and the still version of Champagne can taste very " un-Chardonnay "- like because of this.

The Portuguese experimentation with Chardonnay has been mostly influenced by flying winemakers from Australia and the examples produced so far are very New World in style.

In cooler climates, the extract and acidity of Chardonnay is magnified which has the potential of producing very concentrated wines that can develop through bottle aging.

Despite the backlash, Chardonnay remains very popular.

While Grenache noir or " red " Grenache is the most well known, Grenache blanc or " white " Grenache is a very important grape variety in France where it is the fourth most widely planted white variety after Ugni blanc, Chardonnay and Semillon.

Chardonnay is a variety that has very distinct flavor profiles when fermented in oak that include coconut, cinnamon and cloves notes.

A heavily-oaked, over-ripe Chardonnay from California can taste very similar to the same style of wine from elsewhere.

The Chardonnay vintages of the early 1990s from British Columbia helped generate international attention to the quality of Canadian wines apart from ice wine varietals.

The export driven Australian wine industry was well situated for the Chardonnay boom of the 1980s and 1990s and Australia responded with a unique style of wine that was characterized by big fruit flavors and easy approachability.

) By the late 1990s, efforts to promote " authentic " Chardonnay helped to increase plantings and by 2004 it was the 3rd most widely planted white wine grape behind Chenin blanc and Colombard.

Riesling was the most planted white grape in Australia until the early 1990s when Chardonnay greatly increased in popularity.

In the 1980s and 1990s, production styles shifted to producing more lighter and crisper styles that were closer to Pinot grigio than to Chardonnay.

When the term was coined around 1989, Chardonnay was seen as a drink of affluent people.

Chardonnay socialist is a derogatory Australasian term used to describe those on the political left with comfortable middle or upper-class incomes, tertiary education, and a penchant for the finer things in life, Chardonnay being a form of white wine for example.

Other popular varieties include Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon blanc, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Grenache, Tempranillo, Riesling and Chardonnay.

The main wines produced in Kosovo include Pinot Noir, Merlot and Chardonnay.

Among wine connoisseurs ( and other groups ), for example, Cabernet Sauvignon is often known as " Cab Sav ," Chardonnay as " Chard " and so on ; this means that naming the different wines expends less superfluous effort ; it also helps to indicate the user's familiarity with wine.

Atsby is a New York vermouth made from a base of locally-sourced Chardonnay ( North Fork of Long Island ), and are fortified with craft apple brandy from the finger lakes region.

The amines in red wine and Chardonnay produce off-flavors and cause headaches and hypertension in some people.

Chardonnay () is a green-skinned grape variety used to make white wine.

For new and developing wine regions, growing Chardonnay is seen as a " rite of passage " and an easy entry into the international wine market.

Chardonnay is an important component of many sparkling wines around the world, including Champagne.

For much of its history, a connection was assumed between Chardonnay and Pinot noir or Pinot blanc.

Pierre Galet disagreed with this assessment, believing that Chardonnay was not related to any other major grape variety.

Modern DNA fingerprinting research at University of California, Davis, now suggests that Chardonnay is the result of a cross between the Pinot and Gouais Blanc ( Heunisch ) grape varieties.

These " successful " crosses included Chardonnay and siblings such as Aligoté, Aubin Vert, Auxerrois, Bachet noir, Beaunoir, Franc Noir de la-Haute-Saône, Gamay Blanc Gloriod, Gamay noir, Melon, Knipperlé, Peurion, Roublot, Sacy and Dameron.

As of 2006, 34 clonal varieties of Chardonnay could be found in vineyards throughout France, most of which were developed at the University of Burgundy in Dijon.

Chardonnay has served as parent to several French-American hybrid grapes, as well as crossings with other Vitis vinifera varieties.

Examples include the hybrid Chardonel which was a Chardonnay and Seyval blanc cross produced in 1953 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

Mutations of the Chardonnay grape include the rare pink-berried " Chardonnay Rose "; also " Chardonnay Blanc Musqué ", which produces an intensely aromatic wine.

Chardonnay Blanc Musqué is mostly found around the Mâconnais village of Clessé and sometimes confused with the Dijon-166 clone planted in South Africa, which yields Muscat-like aromas.

Chardonnay has a wide-ranging reputation for relative ease of cultivation and ability to adapt to different conditions.

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Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

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Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

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` Abdu ' l-Bahá soon became very popular in the penal colony and Myron Phelps a wealthy New York lawyer described how " a crowd of human beings ... Syrians, Arabs, Ethiopians, and many others ", all waited to talk and receive ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

Banjos were introduced in Britain by Sweeney's group, the American Virginia Minstrels, in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

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In the works of the Apostolic Fathers, and Ignatius of Antioch in particular, the role of the episkopos, or bishop, became more important or, rather, already was very important and being clearly defined.

The French government relocated from Paris to Bordeaux very briefly during World War II, when it became apparent that Paris would soon fall into German hands ( as in 1870 during war against Prussia and at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war ).