Beringer Founder's Estate Chardonnay 2004

Tonight I am planning to make a fettuccine and prawn dish for dinner. Some lemon, garlic, pine nuts, Italian parsley, parmesan cheese and butter. Also, a dash of white wine. Now white is not something I drink unless the food so dictates. It's not like I would try to forget todays work by drowning my sorrows in Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc. They just don't give the satisfying buzz of a good red wine. Nor is the taste as fulfilling. But when you're making pasta in a butter sauce, you need white wine. Red goes in spaghetti sauce.

But I'm not going to pull out a $50 bottle of Aubert Chardonnay, am I. Nope. I need a lower priced wine if I'm pouring it into the sauce. Hence the Beringer Founder's Estate 2004 Chardonnay ($8.00 at Safeway as I recall). Now I'm not saying that you can't find a nice wine at this price, or that all I drink is expensive wine. Look at my other posts and you'll see the mortgage gets most of my money.

But I have to say, this is not bad stuff. Not too oakey, pear and lemon on the nose and a nice round mouth feel to it. I could drink this. And indeed my dinner is only going to use a small quantity, so.... Down the hatch!

I should note I have also tried their Pinot Noir and Cabernet and for the price they produce a pretty good wine!

Give it a try.