Just read about Chardonnay “Muscate” being grown in the Jura. This is, supposedly, a Chard that has muscat/musky aromatics. I’ve heard of (and like) Sauvignon Musque. GWT is one of the “musque” varieties. But I never done did heer’d of a Chard Musque. Can anyone enlighten me on this sub-variety?? Anyone ever tried a Chard Musque?? Is there much of it planted in Calif?
Apparently, Matchbook Wines, over in the DunniganHills/YoloCnty makes a Chard Musque. Anybody ever tried that wine?? And???
I, of course, would like to follow Chard Musque from the very start. 
Tom
We at Buena Vista produced a few hundred cases of a Musque Clone Chardonnay from our Ramal Vineyard in 2008 and 2009. As you describe, it has a unique floral character similar to Muscate and was primarily used as blending component in our Carneros tier wines. Sadly, we no longer own the Ramal Vineyard but we do have a few cases of the 2008 left at the Historic Winery.
Dan Petroski’s Massican Gemina Chardonnay is either part or completely Chardonnay Musque from Hyde.
I know the Michael-David guys made a wine labeled as Chardonnay Musque.
809 and 77 are musque clones.
And looks like Trefethen made a 0% malo Clone 809…that’s probably worth trying.
There’s quite a lot grown in the Niagara region - When we used to live up in Toronto I had quite a few.
I like it, and it definitely shows of the muscat floral characteristic. Doesn’t seem to make a particularly serious wine, but more enjoyable than some of the more ponderous styles of Chardonnay.
Thanks, Nolan. I like Dan’s Chard quite a lot, but don’t recall any particular Muscat character in it. But, then,
I wasn’t looking for it.
Shoulda known that LeeHudson would be trying something like that.
Tom
I’m also a fan of his Chardonnay and every vintage I’ve tasted (the most recent 3) have screamed Musque to me. On a related note, his 2014 Chard has a ph of 3.1, can’t wait to try that one.
Clayton is correct, there’s lots of Chardonnay Musqué grown in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada. How much you will enjoy it depends on how you feel about Chardonnay. itself.
On the one hand, Chardonnay Musqué it has very attractive floral aromatic qualities and riper fruit flavors than Chardonnay. On the other, as Clayton alludes to, it fails to equal the sum of its parts so to speak and cannot produce wines that are either as serious as Chardonnay is nor as fun and sweet as Muscat does.
Malivoire makes a nice biodynamic Chardonnay Musqué Spritz that goes on sale just in time for summer every year, a low alcohol off-dry medium-sweet lightly carbonated wine that that to me is the best wine in this region made from the grape and also indicates the peak of its abilities. It will never make a wine greater than this and this is not intended to be a deadly serious wine. It’s a delicious refreshing daily drinker type that’s less sweet and a touch more complex than your usual Moscato D’Asti.
I believe there is a lot planted in the Cote de Beaune, esp around the Montrachet vineyard…