Bogle Chardonnay White Wine

Chardonnay names the grape, and that is most of what the label settles. Across our September 2026 checks the price sat between $10.99 and $14.99, which places it toward the affordable end of the white wines we track. How the wine was made is not something our evidence specifies. Category guides describe Chardonnay as a white that can be left without oak to stay lighter or given time in oak to gain weight, showing citrus and apple from cooler-grown fruit and stone or tropical fruit when the grapes ripen further. Oak and time on the spent yeast can also add toast, spice and a rounder feel, though the guides call that a choice in the cellar, not a given.

We do not have a shopper rating for this bottle yet. As for the name, Bogle says its history starts in 1968, when the family planted wine grapes for the first time; the first wine released as a Bogle followed in 1978.

Bogle publishes a technical sheet for the 2023 vintage that fills in what the label leaves out: 13.5 percent alcohol, a wine pH of 3.51, and a measured acidity of 0.66. The producer ferments the wine in two equal halves, half in stainless steel tanks and half in oak barrels, then ages it on the spent yeast for eight months, stirring the settled yeast back in by hand once a month, a step the winemaking notes credit for texture. The sheet's own tasting language describes bright citrus, apple and jasmine on the nose, with stone fruit, vanilla, clove and a touch of oak-derived toastiness on the palate, alongside the greener apple and pear the producer's product page also names. The family's own account traces the winery to a single 1968 planting on land in California's Sacramento River Delta, where the producer credits the Delta's dense clay soils and cooling river breezes for the fruit its wines are made from today.

Our call: this suits a shopper who wants a producer's account nailed down in writing: Bogle publishes vintage technical sheets down to the pH and fermentation split, and the bottle's checked price lands toward the affordable end of the white wines we track. Pass if the crowd's opinion is what moves you; no shopper rating has reached our record yet, and the award badge printed on the producer's own page is too faint in our capture to confirm what it says.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.