Greetings All! I would like to share with you the story of Goldilocks and the Three Chardonnays. I wanted to try a Pouilly-Fuisse as I had never partaken of this golden French delight. I purchased a 2016 Louis Jadot Pouilly-Fuisse at Costco The Pouilly-Fuisse is from the Burgundy Mâconnais region in France. It had hints of lemon and notes of grass. This was a medium-bodied wine, is very dry and a bit sharp with a level of acidity so it wasn’t my favorite choice. However, it grew on me. I also realized that I could pronounce the name so much better after a couple of swigs of it as opposed to when I first started. I then tried the Bread and Butter Chardonnay mid-week. It was waaayyy too buttery. It was almost like they took the fake butter you can put on popcorn at the movie theatre and injected it into the bottle. I will load up a bucket of popcorn with butter like nobody’s business, but not my bottle of wine. I enjoyed this wine a couple of years ago, but it was too rich and just too much. Sometimes you have to go with what you know, so I poured a glass of 2016 Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay on Friday and it was juuussst right. Sometimes your palette isn’t quite as refined, sometimes it’s too refined and sometimes it finds a place somewhere in the middle.
You can find the 2016 Louis Jadot Pouilly-Fuisse at Costco or other stores for approximately $22.00 per bottle. Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay can be found at really any store for around $11.00 per bottle.
