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What's your favorite chardonnay?

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Posted on December 3, 2017 at 19:56:57
mkuller
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 ...at our wine group XMas Dinner in a couple of weeks we will be blind tasting chardonnay with our wives.

I think the 2015 Steele chardonnay will be the one to beat.

Any recommendations?

 

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So far..., posted on December 9, 2017 at 12:44:34
mkuller
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 ...my wife, who is the chardonnay drinker, and I have done a couple of blind tastings ourselves with some of her favorites, a few costing about $30.

In each one of those tastings, the $10 2015 Kendall-Jackson Vintners Reserve has surprisingly been the winner.

That will be what we are bringing next week so we'll see how it does.

 

RE: What's your favorite chardonnay?, posted on December 6, 2017 at 18:39:13
triodesteve
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 Does it have to be domestic?

 

RE: What's your favorite chardonnay?, posted on December 6, 2017 at 22:34:33
jimbill
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 Can't you throw in a couple of ringers?

On the cheap side, how about Kim Crawford unoaked? Wide availability.

But for true comparison, how about a Meursault (about the same price as Rombaurer), or even a Pouilly-Fuisse.

Some minerality and acidity.

Are you going to have them with food or just drinking?

 

Chardonnay..., posted on December 7, 2017 at 11:17:54
mkuller
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 ...with bread and cheese.


Mineral and acidity won't win - fruit and buttery smoothness will.

 

Chardonnay..., posted on December 6, 2017 at 20:47:17
mkuller
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 ...all of the entries in the tasting will be from CA since that's what most of our wives drink.

Past winners were Rombauer, Butter and MacRostie.

 

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