Wine Review #1 - Goat Door Chardonnay

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I really needed to get going on this wine and foodie blog. Tonight is the night. I'm going to start right at the bottom with a really, and I mean really, inexpensive wine I picked up at a local wine store recently. For $3.99 (I wasn't kidding about the el cheapo price) in the end cap isle, was a bottle of Goat Door, 2005 Chardonnay from South Africa. Now I have to tell you, I was eating a bowl of cauliflower covered in a dried Indian curry mixed spice mix when I took the first sip. The familiar oakiness of a Chardonnay jumped out at me, made me smile, and I thought I had a winner at $3.99 a bottle. Nevertheless, that feeling didn't last long.

The curry actually helped the taste along but when I was sipping the wine alone the flavors took on their own character when not in competition with the curry. I continued to taste the oakey flavor which I do indeed like. I also got a silky, buttery, feeling from the wine which I also like. There just seemed to be a sour back end to it that I didn't like. When I really searched for it I could taste a veeerrryy slight caramel taste or maybe that's what I was hoping for. All in all for the price it wasn't too bad. I would probably buy it again just for one of those nights when I would like to open a bottle of wine, have a glass with my meal and not worry about whether or not the rest went to waste.

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Laura W said…
Hey, it's YOU. ML did not know who CT Foodie was so we came over and saw the Foodie Kitties' names. Did you know ML did a wine blog when she lived in CO? She wrote a biweekly column for the local paper and posted them on the blog. Blogger won't let her access it any more due to email changes in the move, but it is still there for viewing at winewhisperer.blogspot.com.
She had a cute graphic on it but lost that too in the ISP transition.
Bounty Hunter Annie
March 4, 2008 at 7:28 AM
michico＊Adan＊Lego-小芥＊阿丹＊樂高 said…
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