Name: Maipe Chardonnay 2012
Variety: 85% Chardonnay 15% Viognier
Country: Argentina (Mendoza)
Price: $7.95
Vintage Cellar Review: 30% malolactic
fermentation, 30% was aged in French oak barrels. Brilliant yellow golden color with green hints. The wine is crisp and filled with white peach, pear, green apples flavors, toasty vanilla. Elegant and luscious wine, well balanced. Crisp and long finish. Pairs well with creamy soups, pork, veal, vegetables.
My Review: Guys I think I had a breakthrough, I really never liked Chardonnays, but I think I'm starting to get over that. I bought a bottle of Yellowtail Chardonnay Reserve and it was spectacular! So after that, I was anxious to try more chardonnays and this one was delicious too. I laughed at my notes for this wine though, because for smell I seriously just wrote "lol cat pee." But thats what it smelled like! I guess to be more tastful you could say earthy, or some or fluffy bullcrap, but it smelled like cat pee! Before this class I wouldn't have batted an eye at something I described as that, but I just dived right in here. It had the typical chardonnay taste that now intrigues me more than grosses me out, but a nice crisp apricot flavor to it which settled to a nice full-balanced acidic flavor. If I wasn't buying hella amounts of wine for a pairing dinner tomorrow night (spoiler alert) then I definitely would have picked up a bottle of this!
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