What's up wine lovers? today I had the opportunity to take a trip with one of my kids to Gainesville, Florida as there was a record store we had to check out. Of course we also had to do some lunch so we stopped at a sushi restaurant and had some amazing sushi. Right next door to the sushi restaurant was a wine shop but not just any wine shop, this was a place named The Good Pour (https://goodpour.com/). While I won't get into the details of the store here in this review, I will say it was a very nice wine shop and a wine shop that I certainly will be doing a review of very shortly. Guys, I was impressed overall with the store and I can't wait to tell you about it. In the meantime, I will tell you that I high;y recommend you visit one of their locations if you are in the Central Florida area. Now it is time to review one of the wines I bought while at the store.
Today I will be taking a look at the 2022 Edna Valley, Chardonnay. As I said earlier, I visited a new wine store today. While I was there I picked up two wines from wineries that I had never heard of before with one being today's review wine. I paid $13.99 for this wine and the bottle is cork sealed. The wine comes in at 13.5% alcohol and the grapes for it come from the Edna Valley AVA located in San Luis Obispo County, California. 
Let's talk label now. I think this is a wonderful label for a white wine. The label is mostly all white and what really sets it off is the where the gold color is used and how that gold frames the wineries name. Take a good look at the label guys, isn't that awesome? I especially live the gold colored Crest that is in the center of the label. All around this is an very nice label and one which presents the wine inside very nicely.
Okay than, on the nose, the wine is extremely limited and puts off a huge note or impression at least of a wine that is vanilla dominated like big time. There is some oak as well and the impression at least of a wine that is going to be almost ayrupy tasting as well.
On the palate now, there is an oak note here and it is right up there a feared note of butteriness. Adding to these two notes is an ever so slight alcohol burn that I picked up on the finish. On the fruit end, as I feared, I am picking up an almost syrupy...green pear...nectar driven Chardonnay. Making matters even worse is a huge (nasty) note of Vanilla, yeah guys, vanilla. To make matters even worse, there is also a crazy sweetness element to the wine that just adds to its destruction. Guys...I can't...I simply can't go on with this review. The wine sucks! I will see you in the next paragraph to wrap this review up.
Look guys, there are many, many people out there who will absolutely just love this wine. I myself can't understand why or how they will but wine is subjective and what I rate at 83, some might rate at 92. If this wine is your style than you have found a winner, buy it by the case, it's cheap enough. If, on the other hand, you expect much more from a Chardonnay, stay farrrrr away from this wine. On The Desert Wine Guy rating scale I am indeed giving this wine 83 points. As a matter of fact, I am going to rate this wine as undrinkable because to me it is that bad.
The Desert Wine Guy
No comments:
Post a Comment