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It’s been a while since I opened a bottle of white wine, so I decided to try this 2008 Bourgogne Chardonnay that I bought a few weeks ago. According to a wine website a lot like this wine:
“This vintage is issued from a blending of the only grape Chardonnay from different Burgundian origins. It results, for 50 % of the Côte de Beaune, with vineyards located on the Villages of Meursault, Puligny and Chassagne. The second part arises from Maconnais (45 %) and a small part results from the Côte de Nuits (5 %). Soils are all argilo-limestones with a dominant of marl limestone for the Maconnais and the Côte de Nuits and a rather clayey marl for the Côte de Beaune. The vineyards are generally located at the bottom of hillsides with moderated slopes. Vineyards are on average 40 years old, in other words in full strength of the age!
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The colour is golden pale with silvery tints. The wine is coming from an ageing shared between stainless tank and French oak barrel (15 % new oak), the nose is opened, expressive, intense, on at once fruity notes (vine peach, quince, grapefruit, lime) and woody notes (vanilla, fresh butter). In mouth, the attack is tonic, mineral, ending then in a pure and citrucy texture. We found weel the freshness of a Bourgogne Chardonay we are usually looking for, with a slight point of acidity which does not make it for all that aggressive. The final, still on this note of fresh peach, is long and persistent. A wine that we recommend to drink in the coming 2 years to benefit from its beautiful balance.”
I would agree that the smell is very intense and fruity. I do not get overwhelmed with oak like you would from a California Chardonnay. The wine is really smooth for being a crisp wine. It does refresh but it doesn’t hit you very hard with acid. This would be an interesting wine to contrast with a heavy oak Chardonnay as those are the Chardonnays that I usually frequent. According to Wine.com, it only cost $11.79 but is sold out and now only the 2009 in available for $18.29, which I feel is closer to what I paid.
Either way it is very worth the price and I would even go as to far to say this would be a great universal wine that I would serve as a white option if I had people over. I give this wine a solid A.
~Justin
For me to review a Padilla cigar for most of the people that know me, know I love almost everything Padilla has ever put out. Then it begs the question so what do I think of some of there off the wall cigars like this one the Small Batch #17RC? Small batch meaning that whatever the crop was, there was not enough to make this blend last as a regular line to their brand.
For some reason, I have been drinking a lot less beer lately. I don’t know if it is because I am more picky or if it is just I enjoy some of the wines and scotches better. Either way, I recently picked up a sample pack of the Sam Adam’s summer. I have noticed that Sam Adams has been putting out variety packs that have a couple types that you cannot buy by themselves.
After a long hot run, I decided to sit down in front of a movie and open up a bottle of wine. Today’s choice is the Bogle Petite Sirah Vintage 2009, which I have had before and remember enjoying it quite a bit. On Bogle’s website they describe the 2010 version of the wine:
For some reason lately I have not been sleeping well and at a local wine shop in a downtown area that specializes in rare affordable Virginian wines so I decided to purchases some Californian “medicine.” Terra d’Oro Zinfandel Port has no age distinction but it is 19 percent alc. by volume and peaked my interest because it had the keyword Zinfandel in the label. Now, if you do not know much about wines and you are thinking of white Zinfandel’s you might want to do some research. Red Zinfandel’s are a very good smooth red wine that is getting more and more popular. Here is what the winery has to say about it’s port: