Chardonnay 180

While posting to In Vino Veritas, talking about a chardonnay I liked, I commented on how much I love good, robust chardonnays.

This was not always the case. In fact, I used to hate chardonnay...lowest on my short list of wines I had tasted. A few years ago, however, I stumbled across a chardonnay in a Nashville liquor store. I had stopped there while on my way to my mother's house for a Thanksgiving visit, after offering to purchase the wine for the holiday dinner. I picked a couple, and decided I should get a chardonnay, as I knew my mother liked them.

I had shuffled around the store for a while before stumbling, trying to pick a chard when I happened upon a bottle of Lecole No 41 chardonnay. A Washington state vineyard. Price was steeper than I was used to paying, but I went ahead with the purchase. It ended up being an eye-opener of a bottle for me, and I've loved good quality chards ever since.

It's weird how life can be changed over such little things as stumbling upon an interesting bottle in a liquor store...