Chardonnay was certainly getting the bum's rush in bLaurie/b Daniel's article in the San Jose Mercury News yesterday; specifically, Californian chardonnay. Here is her opening stanza: ?SOMETHING NEEDS to be done about the sad state of California b..../b Add to this the deployment of a diverse selection of barrel ages (for example, the 2007 Santa Cruz Mountains bEstate/b Chardonnay aged in the following: 29% new, 43% one and two years, 28% three, four and five years old barrels ), ...
