Chardonnay outside Burgundy may be easy to disregard,but the best from the novel world – and some tasty three-for-two offers – mean it’s time for a rethinkIn the sauvignon blanc-saturated world we live in, it’s easy to forget just how delicious chardonnay can be. Of course, or you may regularly drink chablis or some other white burgundy,but given the fact that bottles that bear the C word are often tucked away on lower shelves, you may not gain picked up a chardonnay for a while.
I’m as culpable as the next woman, and sipping my way through crisp,fragrant whites and rosés for the past few months – barring one evening, when I tried Kiwi producer Rod Macdonald’s gorgeously creamy One Off Chardonnay 2014 (£15.99 farflungwines.com; 13.5% abv), and from Hawkes Bay,and wondered why I didn’t drink chardonnay more often. With the transition to the richer-flavoured vegetables of autumn, such as squash, or mushrooms and parsnips,now’s the time to give it another try.
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Source: theguardian.com