Unoaked chard….nice topic! I love sav blanc but sometimes they are too acidic for me but I love fume blanc (oaked) but sometimes too oaky!! Naked chard my man…..YEA!!

About 90% with food!! BTW I keep putting “sake” in your search with no results. I am begging you Gary….. Joe

Great show as usual. Not of fan of Chards, but I think you have convinced me to give it another try. QOD – 70% with food, 30% without.

Great show as usual. Not of fan of Chards, but I think you have convinced me to give it another try. QOD – 70% with food, 30% without.

Great show again, and more importantly GV is asking us to put aside any preconceived notions concerning the “OAK MONSTER”.
I will give the naked chards a go. As for my drinking habits, I would say it’s
75% w/ meals and 25% w/o.

Thanks for showing the vaniacs how nice an unoaked chard can be. However, I think that oaked chardonnays can be very elegant as well. The key is not to over oak the wine. A “kiss” of medium toasted French oak from the Never or Limousin regions gives a vanilla component adding a very nice complexity to the wine. This pairs great with richer foods.

I have made both oaked and unoaked Chards with the addition of Malolactic Culture to soften the mid palate in both cases. M/L adds the thunder to the body of the wine and an unmistakable buttery nose,which goes extremely well with Pineapple, and Mango components on the nose. I think the spritzing action that you observed in two of the unoaked Chards that you tasted was the result of a spontaneous m/l fermentation in the bottle. The chances are pretty good that the wine was processed in an area where M/L spores were lurking on the winery walls. This is very common in most wineries.

QOTD 60/30

Do

Do

Get

We

To

??????????????????

??????????????????

Gary???????????????????

Anybody???????????????????????????

Bueller??????????????????????

Bueller??????????????

Ferris???????????????????????????

Ferris???????????????????????????

Ferris Bueller???????????????????????

Ferris Bueller???????????????????????

70% with food?????????
Where is Bueller???????

Great info! I always say “Anything But Chardonnay,” but here’s a syle I can agree with.
qotd: 99% with food. To me, wine is just part of the dinner table; more of a grocery than a special beverage.

Great info! I always say “Anything But Chardonnay,” but here’s a syle I can agree with.
qotd: 99% with food. To me, wine is just part of the dinner table; more of a grocery than a special beverage.

good show again today gv… i’ll give you some beat poet style hipster snaps!

qotd: i’m really split down the middle, 50% with, 50% without