(Stuff) - Wine snobs and doubters, listen up – chardonnay is getting its mojo back. Sure, it's not about to overtake our industry darling, sauvignon blanc, any time soon, but it is increasingly finding favour as a sophisticated and elegant alternative, capable of holding its own in the finest company. You only have to look at the wine awards to see how chardonnay is winning attention. For example, at the prestigious Air New Zealand Wine Awards in mid-November, Villa Maria won Champion Wine of Show for a chardonnay, its single vineyard Keltern 2010. It took the same top award once before, in 1987, with a Gisborne chardonnay.