***Update on this particular post from December 2012***
I don’t know if the extra 18 months of aging severely helped this wine out, or if the previous bottle was bad, or if this needed to be consumed on a warm summer night, but this is actually quite light, crisp and delightful. There was no strange tingle this time around making me think the previous bottle I had tried did not ship well. While I do agree with my previous posting that I do prefer an oakier, fuller bodied Chardonnay, I will have to note that is decent for sipping after a long day of work and class. I do have to brag a moment and mention that I spent my evening in the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum seeing millennia old cuneiform tablets and then later getting to handle one as well as ancient papyrus fragments. Maybe there’s something about handling 2500 year old artifacts that made this wine taste better this evening. I’m sure the two are unrelated… But I would bump the rating up on this to maybe a B-. I’m a sucker for a good citrus undertone paired with being well chilled.