- 2009 Eberle Estate Chardonnay, price: 19 Hailing from the hills of Paso Robles, CA, this bottle of wine offers a prevailingly citrus taste, with noticeable, but not overwhelming, fruit flavors including pineapple, pear and green apple combined with a trace if light toasted oak. Though this glass can certainly be enjoyed on its own, the crisp refreshing taste makes it a great summer wine, ideally paired with a variety of seafood, including scallops, oysters and salmon or just a simple summer salad. The Eberle Estate is versatile enough to hold up next to even a simple guacamole or cheese and cracker appetizer as well.
- 2007 Navarro Vineyards Gewurztraminer, price: 19 Best served slightly cooled as opposed to chilled, the Navarro Vineyards Gewurztraminer offers a balanced, medium bodied wine with a particularly dry taste. Exquisitely mixing its faint fruit flavor and touch of lime with an appropriately spiced finish. This bottle can stand on its own or be paired with an array of dishes, recommended as primarily a dinner wine, offering a not too dominant, but impressionably refreshing complement to full-course meals.
- Monthaven Valley 2008 Central Coast Chardonnay, price: 24/3L (or 6 per bottle) Before you hold up your nose at the sight of boxed wine, look again the per bottle price of only 6. Perhaps pour it in a glass before serving it to your friends, if you are desperate to avoid the stigma, but any way it’s served this chardonnay stands up to those well above its price range. Combining distinct flavors of nut and fruit, specifically favoring apple, pear and hazelnut, with an astoundingly acidic citrus finish. This wine is best suited for casual drinking, perhaps outside in the summer sun. Not upscale enough for full tablecloth sit down affairs but great for gatherings among friends.
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