Hey, we're talking cheap wines. Is that supposed to get you excited?
If your definition of cheap expands to $20, there's a lot more to choose from.
Sonoma-Cutrer is a good white Chard that is not sweet and I enjoy it. Can get some decent deals on it if you look. But White Burgundy is the right answer. You will have a hard time finding a good one under $35 though.
I've got this in my wine fridge. When should I drink it?
A foodie and a wine snob. Good thing you got that winning personality.
Fact: most people ( the vast majority) couldn't tell the diff between a $100 and a $20 bottle
Fact: most people ( the vast majority) couldn't tell the diff between a $100 and a $20 bottle
Again, we are talking about personal taste so we could probably go back and forth forever...but its fun.
Wine grapes need stress to produce great fruit. In CA (and Australia) the growing conditions are too good for the most part (that is why all the high dollar wine in Napa comes from the steep sloops). The fruit gets too ripe and the wine becomes fat and boring. The rocky soil stresses the grapes forcing all the life power into the berry. It produces complex and interesting wines.
OSDToy loves Pinot Grigio in the summer, what is the $ on the Simply Naked and where is it available in the Triad?
I loved French wines long before I went there...but it certainly did help to see it.