UR New Bestest Chardonnay-Kirkland Signature Sonoma County Chardonnay 2024

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Hey there. Domain Dave, cheapwinefiner.com. With another wine review. Like always, uh, we do um reviews of inexpensive wines. Um more and more big magazines are doing um value price wines, but when we started, nobody was. So we figured we'd help people out, and here we go. Uh we got a wine from it's this is a Kirkland uh every vintage they do the same thing. This is like perennial. It's the Kirkland signature Sonoma County Chardonnay 2024. And according to a sign on the the cases, this was released in May of uh 2026, which means it's a fairly fresh bottle of wine. Um when you get value-priced wines, even this wine, this one has some um has some oak aging, which and acidity, which can give it more lasting power, but it's always a little bit better uh to get it young just because wine in stores are not always stored properly, and the sooner's the better, they're not gonna age, they're not gonna improve with age. I mean, there are wines that will improve with age. This ain't one of them. So um, there you go. So this is Sonoma County. Uh this is a wine from Precept. Precept is the largest uh independently owned winery or wine company in the Northwest. And they just recently bought uh Miller family uh vineyards in um the central coast. They have some really good vineyards, and they're a big wine producer, so they just uh they went from being up in Oregon or Washington down to the Central Coast. And of course, they have this um Sonoma County Chardonnay. Uh one thing interesting is that um the bottling was looks like it was done, uh it was like uh Geyserville and Mantica. Uh it was the locations, and that means it's um Delicado and Copla wines were did something with the bottling, which is a nice, I mean, uh they're looks like they're cooperating somehow, which is a pretty cool thing. So uh at least that's what I think is what's going on there, because they are Bantica and Geyserville are his that company. So I'm gonna sit up. This is a good California Chardonnay. The alcohol is $13.5, so it's not too heavy. It it just does fine. I really um it's one of those wines where anything under like $15 you wouldn't know what the price tag is. And this was $7.39. In the past it was $7.99, so Casco dropped 60 uh cents off of it. Which is you know good. I'll take 60 cents. Um so I don't know. This is American Chardonnay. It's not, it's gonna be more fruit and citrus, and I actually um it has some oak, and I actually got a bit of butterscotch in there. So you got the um the melons and the apples and the peaches and pears and the stone fruits and maybe a little grapefruit. And a little bit, like I said, from the oak. It looks like there might have been some not quite butter, but butterscotch, which is, you know, not not a didn't slap you upside the head, but it was, I think it was there. If I think it, then it is. And a good shot of spice, so it's got all the things you kind of want out of a California Chardonnay. I mean, it's it it's just a nice, friendly bottle of wine. I think it's another sip. It's got a nice mouthfeel. It does have a little bit of that. It does have some oak, which is nice. I think it's oak barrel. To get that in a 749 wine, because that that's uh an expensive detail. It I taste, I it sure tastes like oak. So uh it's a nice wine, and it's Kirkland Seamster, you'll have cases of it there. And it's just a fine Chardonnay. I mean, put a you know, if you're looking for just a like the house white wine, but you know, you can you can spend uh you know, buy three or four of these to you know put away, and then you you got a company come over, you go out and you get one of the you know the big names for $25 and $30 to spend for them, but when you're on the back porch, this is your go-to. I'm gonna take another sip and then close this one up because $749, uh $739 go-to wine is a good thing. Yeah, great mouthfeel, good, a lot of flavor. This is uh this is a good wine. I like it. And there you go. Uh Kirkland Signature Sonoma County Chardonnay 2024. Sonoma uh county is a great place for um Chardonnay. There's tons of good vineyards there, and they know how to grow Chardonnay. You can't go wrong. So, adios, keep it cheap, domain day. I'll be talking to you. I got a couple of interesting wines coming up. We'll do that in a couple of days. So um keep it cheap. Bye bye.