Our take
Bread & Butter Chardonnay California White Wine
- Style
- White wine
- Size
- 750 ml
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- California
- Shelf barcode
- 0850832004260
Our take
What we make of this bottle
Bread & Butter Wines gives its home and tasting room as 3105 Silverado Trail in Napa, California. The wine is a Chardonnay, a white grape that goes into both still and sparkling bottles. A winemaker can keep it out of oak for a lighter style or ferment and age it in oak for more weight. Official category guides expect citrus and apple from the cooler side of the grape and stone fruit from the riper side.
2 shoppers have rated it on the store, which comes to 3 out of five. Across nine stores in our September 2026 checks, prices ranged from $10.99 to $20.99. Whether a given bottle leans light or full is settled in the winery, and those same guides are careful to call the oak, and the rounder texture it can bring, a winemaking choice rather than a guarantee.
Bread & Butter's website currently lists a 2024 California Chardonnay in place of the earlier vintage; the producer's page for that current bottling gives 13.5 percent alcohol and describes creamy vanilla bean and almond notes with a touch of tropical fruit, balanced acidity and what the producer calls 'savory oak' leading to a long, smooth finish. We note the vintage change here rather than treat those specifics as certain for whatever vintage sits on shelf now; a shopper who wants the producer's published numbers to match the exact bottle in hand should check the vintage printed on the label against 2024. Winemaker Linda Trotta, a UC Davis-trained veteran with more than 30 years of experience across four continents, oversees Bread & Butter's Chardonnay within the brand's Everyday Wines collection, per the producer's own winemaker bio.
Our call: this suits a shopper comfortable buying on the strength of the producer's brand and its named winemaker, since Linda Trotta's Chardonnay carries a clear, on-page style description even as the exact vintage on offer shifts. Pass if you need the producer's published numbers to match the bottle in hand with certainty: the producer's site has moved on to a 2024 vintage, and our record cannot confirm that vintage is the one currently on shelf.
The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.
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Read our take →The prices we checked
Dated store checks, not a promise about your store.
- Kroger, Atlanta suburbs, GA$10.99
- Kroger, Cincinnati, OH$16.99
- Ralphs, Long Beach, CA$18.99
- Fred Meyer, Portland, OR$20.99
- King Soopers, Colorado Springs, CO$13.99
- Kroger, Knoxville, TN$13.99
- Kroger, Richmond, VA$13.99
- Fry's, Tucson, AZ$13.99
- QFC, Tacoma, WA$18.99
The regular price can vary by store and date.
From the producer
Napa home
Bread & Butter Wines lists its home and tasting room at 3105 Silverado Trail in Napa, California.
Research status
What we are still checking
Our overview above draws on the dated store feed, shopper ratings, our region and grape research, and any sourced producer facts. We are still working to confirm the current release, the full producer record, and the bottle itself, and we update this page as we learn more.
Getting to know California.
California on the label is useful provenance but weak detail about place. For these wines, sourcing disclosure, blend construction and house-style consistency carry more decision value than a generic climate paragraph.
What the name means
A state-level appellation, broader than an individual American Viticultural Area. It permits a multi-region blend and does not by itself identify one climate or soil.
How grapes grow here
The state spans cool maritime zones and hot inland valleys. A California designation alone does not reveal which conditions shaped the fruit.
What lies under the vines
At state scale, sourcing and house-style construction matter more than any single soil story.
How large the region is
- Reusable question
- Which counties or AVAs supplied the blend, and did that mix change by release?
Places within the region
- Resolution limit
- County, AVA and vineyard claims begin only when the release names them.
Getting to know Chardonnay.
Chardonnay is a white grape used for still and sparkling wine. It can be made without oak for a lighter shape or fermented and aged in oak for more weight.
Category guide
What to expect in the glass
Official category guides place citrus and apple at the cooler end and stone fruit or tropical fruit in riper examples. Oak and time on the spent yeast can add toast, spice and a rounder texture, but those features are winemaking choices rather than a guarantee.
Sources: New Zealand Winegrowers; Napa Valley Vintners. Checked Aug 10, 2026. See all 116 Chardonnay wines we cover →
Where this information comes from
- Store listing
- Price, package, product identifier, and shopper rating. Checked Aug 10, 2026.
- Barcode
- The shelf barcode shown here is computed from the store product identifier. It has not been checked against a bottle.
- Method
- Every price, rating and fact here is a dated observation. How we check.