Next chardonnay show, try Meridian or Hess Select.

Thanks

Gary & Chris, LOVED another value driven episode!!! Your server = mmeeehhh!!!

No great cheap chards to share. I suffer from a bit of the ABCs, with the exception for good Burgundy, which is rarely under the $20 level.

Btw, did you tape the Q&A? Please post it if you did. I’m curious.

Good show.

QOTD: Columbia Crest Grand Estates Chardonnay.

Hope you had fun at Disney!
QOTD: Just started getting back into Chardonnay. How about trying these?

Liberty School item #11499 http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=11499
Deloach item #45420 http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=45420
Hogue item #20480 http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=20480

Then Splurge on Freeman Chardonnay Ryo-fu 2006 item #40505 http://winelibrary.com/reviewwine.asp?item=40505

Hey, GV, how’s about tasting an Ontario Chardonnay on your next show? I had an Inniskillin 06 Chardonnay that brought some thunder at $10.95 and the 07’s are expected to be even better. Also an Italian Cesari Chardonnay 07 was not bad for $7 a bottle.

QOTD: Sorry just don’t drink much Chardonnays now. So much other wines out there that I’ve been trying and drinking.

QOTD: Independent Producer’s Chard from WA State–I think it’s Columbia Valley. or Trevor Jones-The Boot-Chard–that might be slightly out of the 10 bones range.

Hahn Estates makes an inexpensive “interesting” chard. I’ve been in their wine club for a few years; It was their pinot noir that caught my attention!

Always recommend Ch. St. Jean’s entry chard for people looking for that California oak-n-butter experience. For $10-12 you get something that is better than many of the $20+ options out there. And honestly, when you’re sucking on a block of wood coated in butter, how interesting is it going to get? Lovely.

We pour a healthy 8oz (third of a btl) by the glass. I feel your pain trying to find interesting chardonnay at the price point you’re looking at. With the huge pour it limits what I can do by the glass and we’ve been around to long to change our 20oz glass. Ironically, i had the same problem looking for a by the glass chianti. Tasted many wines w/ the staff(all girls) and they mostly gave me the “whatever….glug, glug, glug….and left (after shift tastings).

Hi,

Liked the show especially Mott’s professional panoramic camera work at the start!

QOTD: Think someone else mentioned this one but it maybe over the $10 cut off and that is one I’ve been drinking recently – the Sonoma Cutrer – I’m drinking the 2006. I don’t think you’ve rated previous years well but I would be interested to know what you think of this one.

Richard aka Scotscan

LOVED IT! GREAT SHOW. we love it when you bring it to us in real life. Wines we can find. Ignore the snobs! We love it. You should not have large round balls in the background…makes your head look big. smile. snicker.

Bad Streak? It’s your palate, Gary…. embrace it. hahaha.

QOTD: 2 buck chuck from trader joe

You were looking for some Chardonnays to review, I would be interested in your thought on one called Matchbook from the Dunnigan Hills AVA in California.

I have had all three of the wines you tasted at parties recently. None of them were good even at a party and the Smoking Loon was undrinkable to me. Chardonnay is not a wine we normally cheap out on. The cheapest one I drink is Lioco that runs about $18-20. I like it because it is crisp clean and steel finished with little malolactic fermentation. Problem here is that it isn’t all that widely available. I also have to give a vote to the Novellum that I bought at Wine Library in August. Very nice wine for the price at I believe $12

QOTD: Rosemount Chardonnay Show Reserve Hunter Valley 2006 for $15.99 is the least expensive good chardonnay I have had.

I find most Chard under $12 garbage. If you wanted to stick with that price point, I’d like to see you taste Sebastiani, Chateau St Jean, Casa Lapostolle or Edna Valley. If you raise the price to $14 and under, please include Paraiso, Lincourt, Catena or Concha Y Toro.

Hope you had fun in Epcot!

I’d say ST. J Chardonnay. It sells for $9.99…and it’s great. It’s crisp and refreshing, with a touch of oak in the back…very food friendly!

Try it out sometime!

Looks like you had fun at Epcot…would love to see the Q&A you had with the peeps you taped in front off. Wow 45 days of a wine event – redonkulous!!

QOTD: So many to choose from and then none to choose from. The chards that I like are not under $10 and are usually steel tanked and definately not Cali. But I did go to your site and I saw some that I would be able to get in my local store – here ya go…Hogue, Mirassou, Bonterra, Wildhurst, Anapamu, Navarrita. Not that I know how any of them taste but just know I’ve seen them on the shelf.

Columbia Crest Grand Estates Chardonnays are regularly very good and usually sell for under $10. I find the entire Columbia Crest family of wines way above average and all but the Reserves in the $10 range. Amazing to me how they can year after year produce so many high eighty and low nintey point rates wines while making over a hundred thousand cases of mot of them!

Not a Chardonnay fan but ditto on the
Columbia Crest Grand Estates.

This one didn’t quite bring the Thunder, but I’m really “meh” on Chardonnay…still trying to find a white wine that I can enjoy.

QOTD: None

Chards for the next show 1) Acacia A 2006 #38712 2)Navarrita 2007 #40482 3) Novellum 2007 From the Languedoc #38499. Three different areas to compare

So that’s why your head was sunburned in the begining of the week. You really need to wear a hat or sun block.
As for an under $10 chardonnay — my suggestion is Estancia.

Obviously Mott was not behind the camera. Fire that guy or coach him better.

Hate I missed you in Otown, I am just up the road.