Famiglia Boron Chardonnay Venezia DOC – Floral & Smooth Italian White Wine

Famiglia Boron Chardonnay Venezia DOC

Famiglia Boron Chardonnay is a smooth, aromatic Italian white from Annone Veneto, with ripe exotic fruit, delicate floral notes and a distinctive almond finish. Made from 100% Chardonnay and coming in at 13.5% ABV, it has more body and texture than a very light white while staying fresh enough to enjoy before dinner or alongside food.

If your idea of Chardonnay is a heavily oaked, buttery wine, this is quite a different experience.

Boron keeps the wine in stainless steel rather than ageing it in oak, so the fruit and natural character of the Chardonnay stay at the front. The result is softer and more rounded than a very crisp Pinot Grigio, but without the vanilla and woody flavours you often find in richer styles of Chardonnay.

For us, that makes it a particularly useful white. There is enough flavour to make it interesting, but nothing about it feels difficult.

What does Boron Chardonnay taste like?

In the glass it is a bright straw yellow with subtle greenish reflections.

The aroma is immediately inviting. Boron describes exotic fruit and spring flowers, and that is a much better indication of the wine than the usual generic Chardonnay description of lemon and apple.

There is ripe fruit here, but it doesn’t feel sweet or tropical in an overblown way. The floral side keeps the nose fresh and gives the wine a little elegance.

On the palate, the style changes gear slightly.

This is a soft, rounded Chardonnay with a persistent finish. It has enough body to feel satisfying and enough acidity to keep everything in balance.

Then comes the part that gives the wine its own identity: a gentle almond note on the finish.

It is subtle rather than bitter, adding a slightly savoury edge after the fruit and flowers. That little almond character is one of the reasons this feels more interesting than a simple everyday Chardonnay.

The wine contains around 4g/l of residual sugar and approximately 5.90g/l of total acidity, so the overall impression is dry and balanced rather than sweet.

Most importantly, it tastes like a wine you would actually want a second glass of.

Not the usual heavily oaked Chardonnay

Chardonnay is one of the most widely grown wine grapes in the world, which also means it can taste completely different depending on where and how it is made.

Some Chardonnay is rich, buttery and heavily influenced by oak. Some is extremely lean and acidic.

Boron’s sits somewhere much more relaxed in the middle.

There is no heavy oak ageing. Instead, stainless steel keeps the fruit clear and allows the floral aromas, soft texture and almond finish to come through naturally.

That makes this a good bottle for someone who says they don’t normally like oaky Chardonnay but still wants a white with a little more substance than Pinot Grigio.

It also works the other way around. If you normally drink very light Italian whites and fancy moving towards something with more body, this is an easy step up.

Made in Annone Veneto

The grapes are grown around Annone Veneto, in the eastern part of Veneto in north-eastern Italy.

This is the home territory of the Boron family, who have been making wine here since 1954.

The estate was started by Remigio and Amedeo Boron, with the knowledge and experience now passed on to the next generation – Sabrina, Andrea and Roberto Boron.

The family winery sits in Loncon di Annone Veneto, in the Lison Pramaggiore wine country.

What we like about Boron is that the wines still have the feel of a family producer, but the winemaking isn’t stuck in the past.

The winery uses modern presses, temperature-controlled fermentation and careful handling of the grapes, with the entire production process continuing through to bottling at the estate.

With Chardonnay, that control matters. The aim here is to preserve the fruit and floral aromas without stripping away the wine’s natural texture.

How is Famiglia Boron Chardonnay made?

The wine is made from 100% Chardonnay.

The grapes are normally harvested during the first ten days of September.

Once they arrive at the winery, Boron begins with a short period of cold maceration at around 6°C.

The grapes are then gently pressed and the juice is kept at low temperature before fermentation begins with selected yeasts under controlled conditions.

That cooler approach helps protect the fresh fruit and floral aromas rather than allowing them to disappear during fermentation.

Afterwards, the Chardonnay spends around three months in stainless-steel tanks.

There is no heavy oak treatment.

That leaves you with the character Boron wants from the wine: ripe fruit, flowers, a smooth palate and that gently almond-like finish.

What should you eat with it?

This Chardonnay has enough weight to be useful with food, but it isn’t so rich that you need a heavy dish.

Boron recommends it as an aperitivo and with light starters, herb-led first courses, vegetable dishes, fish with delicate sauces and white meats.

For something fresh and vegetable-led, try it with Pasta Primavera. The herbs, green vegetables and pasta work nicely with the wine’s floral character, while Chardonnay has enough body not to disappear beside the food.

It also works well with lighter fried seafood. A plate of fritto misto gives the wine’s freshness something useful to do, cutting through the fried coating while its softer texture works with the seafood underneath.

Roast chicken is another particularly good match. In fact, we’ve previously featured this style of Chardonnay alongside roast chicken, where a fuller white can handle crispy skin, herbs and the richer parts of a Sunday lunch without overpowering the meat.

We’d also happily pour it with:

• Grilled fish
• Fish in a light cream or herb sauce
• Prawns and shellfish
• Fritto misto
• Roast chicken
• Chicken with herbs
• Chicken in a light cream sauce
• Pasta Primavera
• Vegetable risotto
• Herb risotto
• Savoury vegetable tarts
• Mozzarella
• Ricotta
• Light Italian starters

If dinner is already planned and you’re wondering what to open, use our food and wine pairing guide. You can search hundreds of dishes and find a wine that suits what you’re actually eating.

Who is this Chardonnay for?

If you normally avoid Chardonnay because you associate it with lots of oak and butter, don’t write this one off.

That’s not what Boron is doing here.

The wine is certainly fuller than a very light Pinot Grigio, but the emphasis is on fruit, flowers and texture rather than wood.

At 13.5% ABV, it has genuine substance, so it works particularly well when you want a white wine to carry on through dinner rather than just having a quick glass before eating.

It should also appeal if you enjoy softer Italian whites and want something that feels a little more generous in the glass.

And that almond finish makes it just unusual enough to remember.

How should you serve it?

Boron recommends serving this Chardonnay at around 10°C.

That means nicely chilled, but not absolutely freezing.

This is a wine with aroma and texture, and serving it too cold will hide both.

If the bottle has been sitting at the very back of a cold fridge all day, give it a few minutes out of the fridge before pouring.

A normal white-wine glass is ideal.

Give it a little room and let those floral and fruit aromas come through.

Wine details

Producer: Famiglia Boron / Azienda Agricola Boron
Country: Italy
Region: Veneto
Area: Annone Veneto
Grape: 100% Chardonnay
Classification: Venezia DOC
Style: Dry, unoaked Italian white wine
ABV: 13.5%
Colour: Straw yellow with greenish reflections
Aroma: Intense fruit and floral notes, including exotic fruit and spring flowers
Taste: Soft and rounded with a persistent finish
Finish: Characteristic almond note
Residual sugar: Approximately 4.00g/l
Total acidity: Approximately 5.90g/l
Serving temperature: 10°C
Food pairing: Aperitivo, starters, herb-led pasta, vegetables, fish and white meats
Harvest: First ten days of September
Vinification: Cold maceration, gentle pressing and controlled-temperature fermentation
Ageing: Three months in stainless steel
Winery: Boron family winemaking tradition since 1954

Why we chose it

Chardonnay gets a bad reputation from people who have only tasted one particular style of it.

Boron’s is a good reminder that the grape can do something completely different.

There is no wall of oak or vanilla here.

Instead, you get ripe exotic fruit, flowers, a soft texture and a lovely little almond note that appears on the finish.

At 13.5% ABV, it has enough body to make it genuinely useful at the dinner table, but the stainless-steel ageing keeps the wine feeling fresh and clean.

It’s particularly good if you want something a little fuller than Pinot Grigio without jumping straight into a rich, buttery Chardonnay.

For us, this is a Chardonnay for people who want flavour and texture without the oak getting in the way.

If that sounds like your kind of white, have a look through our Italian white wine collection for more bottles from family producers across Italy.