Editing Chardonnay (section)

==South Africa==
[[File:Stellenbosch unoaked Chardonnay.jpg|right|thumb|An unoaked Chardonnay from the South African wine region of Stellenbosch]]
Due to quarantine restrictions, plant [[cutting (plant)|cutting]]s were often [[smuggle]]d into [[South African wine|South Africa]] in the 1970s and 1980s and many times were misidentified as to what grape variety it really was. A large portion of the Chardonnay plantings from this period turned out to be [[Auxerrois blanc]]. A similar event happened in the German wine region of Baden during the 1980s.<ref name="Clarke pg 63-73"/> By the late 1990s, efforts to promote "authentic" Chardonnay helped to increase plantings and by 2004 it was the third-most widely planted white wine grape behind Chenin blanc and [[Colombard]].<ref name="Oxford pg 154-156"/> Winemakers in the [[Western Cape]] have experimented blending Chardonnay with Riesling and Sauvignon blanc.<ref name="Rob pg 101-106"/>