Talk:Chardonnay

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A fact from Chardonnay appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 15 January 2008.

Show me one source where anyone in agriculture refers to plantings (especially small acerage crops like wine) in square kilometres rather than hectares). You have a 40,000 hectare sheep station, not a 400 sq km one. dramatic 03:58, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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It isn't perfect, but I've knocked it into some kind of shape. To be honest I was getting a bit bored by the time I got to the Regions bit, it could do with a bit of expansion without turning it into a boring list of every country that grows a bit of Chardonnay. For instance Kiwi and Chilean Chardonnay are definitely significant on a global scale (and both can produce some delicious wine), but I'm not sure that they represent a sufficiently distinctive take on "Chardonnay-ness" to justify inclusion in this particular article (but they would be right at home in the country articles). Maybe NZ does. We could definitely do with some hard stats on eg acreage in each country, and a bit more sourced material on styles and the backlash. It would also be nice to have a really good photo of the grapes, the ones we have are OK, but not really "Wow!" An English source for the chewing gum would also be good, I could only find blog references but I thought it was so weird that it had to go in :-) FlagSteward 06:05, 19 October 2007 (UTC)