A Chardonnay that represents a style that a lot of Chardonnay makers have started to get away from. Instead of the unoaked austere style that does not see malolactic fermentation or barrel aging, this wine is a combination of both techniques. The grapes are all organically farmed. 30% of this (...) Here are the top 10 (score and value) wines I have reviewed in the past month. As always, I list just one per winery, in order to spread the cheer. This new list is heavy on the Chardonnay – a pleasant surprise. The listed retail is as the wineries suggest; you may find some wines for less. (...) [paulg's blog – unfined & unfiltered] Here are the top 10 (score and value) wines I have reviewed in the past month. As always, I list just one per winery, in order to spread the cheer. This new list is heavy on the Chardonnay – a pleasant surprise. The listed retail is as the wineries suggest; you may find some wines for less. (...) [paulg's blog – unfined & unfiltered] Although there are exceptions, there are two basic conditions to make really good Crémant d'Alsace: Chardonnay and long storage sur lattes . Chardonnay makes the wine crisp and elegant. Sur lattes is the period when the second fermentation takes place in the bottle, when the mousse is formed and (...) A dozen chardonnays from California, some of which exhibit the too-common stylistic pitfall of heavy reliance on French oak barrels to shape a wine and malolactic fermentation to give it a rich “character.” A few others are excellent models of purity and intensity and fidelity to the grape, a (...) I’m going to be moderating a panel at The Chardonnay Symposium next June 30. They asked me to pick my topic and after long thought I came up with this: Given that Chardonnay is, by all accounts, a neutral grape, how do you preserve or express terroir under all that winemaker influence [barrel (...) [STEVE HEIMOFF| WINE BLOG ] Just When I Was About to Write-off Texas Chardonnay Just about every year I vow to delete the word Chardonnay from the Texas wine lexicon, I find a reason not to. It usually comes after tasting another abomination of a wine made from flabby over ripe fruit with low acidity, high alcohol and the (...) Jim Moore has had a distinguished career as a winemaker in California. He was at Robert Mondavi from 1979 to 1998, developing the Carneros appellation chardonnay and pinot noir programs, reintroducing zinfandel to the roster and redesigning the style and packaging for the proprietary dessert (...) Here’s an easy recipe for a flavorful roasted sea bass recipe. You just precook a few potatoes, then slice them into a roasting pan, top with the other ingredients and pop in the oven for 20 minutes or so. The result is tender pieces of glistening, herb-flecked fish and you barely had to do (...) [WineSkinny.com — Wine, Food, Pairings, Tastings!] Started out with mixed emotions about this 2009 Estrella Chardonnay. In fact, I thought I would give it 3 Corkscrews up until the point that I sat down at the computer and changed my mind settling on the 4 Corkscrews I ended up awarding. Now behind my reasoning. I was shopping in the local wine (...) |
