An Aldi $7.55 Wine-Bear Bros California Chardonnay 2024

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Hey, Domain Dave, cheapwinefiner.com. Another wine review coming to you. Like always, like we always do. Uh today we've got an Aldi one. It was$7.55, which is a little bit of a different kind of price tag for them. Um, but there you go. It's the uh Bear Bros Brothers California Chardonnay 2024. Um they have a whole line of uh bear wines. Um Bear is the national or the whole state animal for California, and um Aldi owns the copyright and the name, so they have had different uh people uh making their wines for him in the past. So here we go. We're gonna take a sip of this one here. And um it's just a regular Chardonnay. They don't have much about it. There's the back label mentions spice and vanilla. Um which is fine. Um and this and it's actually got a little bit for my taste, it's got a little bit too much vanilla. It's um it kind of overpowers the fruit flavors, and it has fruit flavors. It has it has lemon and it has apple, it's got peach and pear, it has spice, but it's just a little bit that a little bit too much uh vanilla for my taste. But if you were to have a cheese tray or a little bit of small bites to go on with, and potato chips would even do it. I'm gonna take another sip. That too much vanilla would go away. Now, uh, as the wine opens up, the vanilla isn't as pronounced, but it's a little bit um a little bit different. I mean, I uh it it does kind of take equal um equal billing with the fruit and citrus flavors, which you know, vanilla is not something that you normally catch with that, and it's not butter, it's vanilla. And it's not a bad vanilla, it's like a vanilla cream, vanilla pudding type of thing, that kind of flavor, but in a wine form. So, um so there we go. I mean, I've pretty much said everything about it right off the bat. It's a um for$7.55, it's perfectly fine, but I would suggest unless you unless you take a taste of it, which you could very, you know, and go, I like it, because one thing I've learned over the years, for every wine I love, there's somebody pouring it down the sink, and every wine I hate, there's somebody buying a case of it. And that's just the way it is with everybody. There's nothing you can do about it. People all this is personal preference. And I don't, um, and I'm saying this one's a little bit out of step uh with the flavoring because vanilla is a oak flavoring, and it's something that should be a little bit more controlled, in my opinion. And like I said, as I keep sipping it, that vanilla fades away. So, you know, um, as it opens up, it's not it's not bad, but I like a little more crisp crispness and my crisp crispness in the fruit, a little bit more uh, you know, maybe a little more grapefruit, maybe some lemon lime going on with the peaches and pears and apples and those type of things you get from Chardonnay. And um, I still have a little bit not my taste, but it's not a bad wine, and at 755 it's perfectly fine. I think the Bear Brothers, like uh a couple of the others, the Savion Blancs and a couple other ones I preferred. But that's just like I said, personal preference. Is it a bad wine? No. Is it a drinkable wine wine? Very much so. It's just not it's just not my style of wine. So there you go. This is domain Dave Cheapwinefighter.com. This is the Bear Bros, Bear Brothers California Chardonnay 2024 from um Aldi. Aldi Aldi owns the copyright of the title, and they've had different people making their wines over the years. So every vintage, you might want to go back and check them out because it might be a completely different wine. And I liked it, but not a hundred percent. I mean, at the price, it's perfectly fine. I liked it at$7.55, but you know, I at if it were ten dollars, I'd buy something else. But that's another story, and that's another review. So adios keep it cheap. This is uh cheapwinefanner.com, Bear Brothers California Chardonnay 2024.$7.55 from Chardonnay. Close, but not quite, in my opinion. But give it a try. You might uh you might find something interesting in it. So adios, bye bye, keep it cheap.