2004 Rex Goliath

[Innkeeper]

To me, most inexpensive New World Chardonnay tastes more like a tree than a fruit. This is because it is very common in these regions (West Coast America, Oz, South America, South Africa, Southern France) to added oak chips or toasted oak sawdust to the wine during or after fermentation. Yuk! There are occasional exceptions, mostly from Oz, but some in Ca Ca land too. Did this one reek of oak too?

In the meantime, I'll stick with inexpensive Maconnaise.