A dry white wine made from chardonnay grapes, originally from the Chablis region of France and now produced in various countries.
Named after the town of Chablis in the Burgundy region of France, where this specific style of wine has been produced since the Middle Ages; the name became synonymous with the wine type itself.
Chablis is fascinating because Americans in the 1970s-80s made 'chablis' a generic term for any cheap white wine, so Californian wine companies sold 'chablis' that would horrify actual Chablis producers—it's a rare case of a place name being deliberately degraded into a marketing term.
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