“After decades of drinking Chardonnays that taste like overripe tropical fruit” soaked in new oak barrels, some wine drinkers have given up on the grape, said Bob Hosmon in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. But I’m not yet ready to join those crying “ABC”—“Anything but Chardonnay.” After all, the Chardonnay-based whites from France’s Burgundy region have none of those heavy flavors. Still, those wines “can be expensive, sometimes very expensive,” so I went looking for more affordable options.
2008 Morgan Metallico Unoaked Chardonnay California, $20
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