How did Chardonnays get to be so popular? Because a lot of times they can push beautiful fruit flavors married with oak. They've got sometimes much more complexity than your typical white wine and that with a smile on my face is what I'm happy to say here. The 2012 Chateau Ste Michelle Indian Wells from the Columbia Valley up in Washington. Fifteen dollar Chardonnay twenty five spectacular dollar valuation because these guys have pushed all of the beautiful Chardonnay flavors right up in your grill and then balanced it out beautifully. I just, I love this wine.

Yes.

I love this wine.

More than all that they delivered a great value here. That's what Joe and I are all about. We're all about finding great value here and they put it all together.

Boy did they.

Delicious apple and maple flavors coming right out of the bat on this wine. You are just like wow. That is nice. There's also a gorgeous layer of tropical fruit in this wine. All kinds of notes oak spice. It is a smooth wine with the kinda of a nice finish. A real nice semi-sweet finish, but it's not a sweet wine. It is in balance. The thing I really like about it is in that oak too Joe. They've obviously got some French oak in here because there's a bit of vanilla in here that just really puts it all together. This wine taste very expensive and it's only fifteen dollars.

Yeah it does. It also has, frankly, got some it's got depth. It has butter in there. It's got some pineapple in there. It's like there's so much in this glass that really makes you think, I mean, at a baseline twenty-five dollars. That's why that's where we we are. But there's something else in here that just pushes it up. It's the graham cracker. Graham cracker is sitting in this wine that is usually reserved for wines that thirty five, forty five dollars. It's absolutely in here. You'll taste it. It creates an elegance and a fine wine elegance in here. It's a big two thumbs up to the 2012 Chateau Ste Michelle. It's a Chardonnay from Indian Wells from the Columbia Valley from Washington. It's delicious.