Last night we had wine and dinner night at Beth's. Teri made wondeful potato soup. We couldn't decide what kind of wine to bring, but I went with the Chardonnay because I figured the buttery flavor would go with the white "sauce" of potato soup.
We've had this bottle for a few years, so it was finally time to drink it! It's supposed to be a decent bottle....it scored an 86, and as the label says, it's a reserve. This is supposed to mean it came from a specially selected barrell of wine chosen by the wine-maker because it had something unique and special about it compared to the rest of the barrells. However, we've come to learn that some brands like to mark 'reserve' on all their bottles, simply so they can charge more per bottle.
This wine had a very deep color. Crude to say, but it was sort of the color of urine. Or maybe sparkling apple cider. It was very thick. Buttery is the only word I can really come up with to describe it. While its rated as being fruity, we didn't find it had much identifiable fruit flavors...the fruit was very subtle, and overwhelmed by the buttery, rich flavor. It went okay with the soup, but I must note it was TERRIBLE with m&m cookies. Ha.
Noah didn't really like this wine at all. I'm interested to try another Chardonnay to see if it is just Chardonnays in general that he doesn't enjoy. I found it to be okay...better than many chardonnays I've had (of course, we tend to usually buy cheap wine so I guess that is not saying much). So for now I will just say it definitely was better than the stuff out of a box. :-)
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