History of Riesling

[Bucko]

Man! Not just here, but on AOHell as well, the subject of Chardonnay seems to stir up some very strong emotions. There has to be something behind this. Hey, I'm honest (well, sorta }:> ). I went through phases with Chardonnay:

Many moons ago I started drinking run of the mill stuff that I could afford, usually non-descript plonk. I slowly upgraded over time to drinking wines like Chalk Hill, Mondavi and Simi. Eventually, I started drinking Kistler Chards. I thought that I had arrived, I mean the acme of wine drinking; I was in the big time. Big everything, new French oak, extract, spice, malo -- WOW! Then one day someone pushed some Hanzell on me, and then some Stony Hill -- more acid, more purity of fruit, a lot less oak -- hey this is pretty good. Then, Gawd forbid, friends pushed some French wines on me -- even more acidity, a lot less oak, more lean and food friendly. Guess what -- I never looked back. Eventually, I quit drinking Chard altogether in favor of Loire whites -- the most food friendly wines in the world IMHO.

All of that rambling to state that various people are at various stages of progression in their wine lives. Who am I to tell the Kistler drinker that they are FOS? To each their own. I may not personally like the wines that they are clucking about, but I can appreciate the wine note, looking at myself in retrospect. We all evolve -- nothing wrong with that. Of course, we all must ridicule mrdutton for his opinion..... ;-)

Bucko