{"id":965,"date":"2012-07-06T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2012-08-23T20:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:59:36","slug":"chardonnay-a-love-hate-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/chardonnay-a-love-hate-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Chardonnay: A Love Hate Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-991 alignright\" title=\"562615_322259167848472_1509922453_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/562615_322259167848472_1509922453_n-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/562615_322259167848472_1509922453_n-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/562615_322259167848472_1509922453_n.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>True confessions, yes!\u00a0 Remorse, no, I don\u2019t plan to lose any sleep over past transgressions, mine or anyone else\u2019s.\u00a0 So, here it goes.\u00a0 Years ago, I loved\u00a0 Chardonnay, and then I just lost interest.\u00a0 At first, it was benign neglect.\u00a0 But then I found myself loathing quite a few Chardonnays, especially a certain breed of California Chardonnay with its propensity for flabbiness and preponderance of oak.\u00a0 At times, after tasting some of these wines I thought I would have to pick splinters from my mouth from the less than judicious use of raw wood. \u201cIs this wine I\u2019m drinking or oak water,\u201d I asked myself.\u00a0 And honestly, I wasn\u2019t sure.\u00a0 I began to hate such concoctions.\u00a0 Admittedly, there were exceptions and some extraordinary California Chardonnays that were not over-oaked or under-wined depending upon one\u2019s perspective.\u00a0 And there were still many French white Burgundies (the original Chardonnay and my first Chardonnay love) that stood the test of time, but the cost of the finest French Burgundies went through the roof in the 1990s and have kept on soaring to the point where such classics are now the exclusive domain of multi-millionaires and billionaires, which precludes me and nearly the rest of the planet, too.\u00a0 I still get to taste these Burgundian classics on occasion, but purchasing them is out of the question.\u00a0 Too bad, but aside from the ridiculous cost, the payback just isn\u2019t that great . . .\u00a0 most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>So, what now?\u00a0 I\u2019m coming full circle on Chardonnay, back to where I once belonged.\u00a0 I enjoy lighter more affordable French Chardonnays such as Pouilly-Fuiss\u00e9 and many California and Washington State Chardonnays, too, now that these producers have begun to eschew oak and those that still barrel ferment and age their Chardonnays have come full circle, too.\u00a0 Many producers have toned down their use of oak and now allow the luscious, natural flavor of Chardonnay to show through.\u00a0 Apparently, I was not alone in my distaste for wood chips, splinters and mega doses of vanillin.\u00a0 So, for me there\u2019s more now to love than hate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Votre Sant\u00e9!<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True confessions, yes!\u00a0 Remorse, no, I don\u2019t plan to lose any sleep over past transgressions, mine or anyone else\u2019s.\u00a0 So, here it goes.\u00a0 Years ago, I loved\u00a0 Chardonnay, and then I just lost interest.\u00a0 At first, it was benign neglect.\u00a0 But then I found myself loathing quite a few Chardonnays, especially a certain breed of 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