Maybe the best Chardonnay of all time !

Unlike the last post, this one doesn't fall into the value category. Peter Michael Winery, Ma Belle-Fille Chardonnay (2007). I bought this about nine months ago from my Peter Michael allocation. What that means is they send you and email and you have a few minutes to decide what wine to buy at crazy high prices. This wine is off the hook. Not over or under done in any way, multiple layers of flavor that go together nicely. The balance is right on. The only problem is that I only could get two bottles and one is now gone. To me this is the truely fun and not fun thing about wine collecting (when to drink the last one).

Smoke Screen Chardonnay (2007)

By far the best low cost wine I have had in years. Apparently the economic down turn has hit the wine business as well. The is a second label wine from the folks at Cakebread which has been a long time favorite of mine and Lisa's. We have not drank much of it lately because the price got out of wack with the quality. This wine is great, easily as good as wines that cost four times as much. When people figure this out it is gone. As for the taste classic over oak'd, big mouth fell, nice and buttery.