WBW #48 – Wine Blogging Wednesday #48 – back to my wine roots!
Happy birthday, Wine Blogging Wednesday! Congratulations with your 4th birthday!
For this edition of the WBW, we had to go back to our wine roots. The first wines I bought with some kind of awareness of what I was buying, where those rather cheap supermarket wines, often from Australia and South-Africa. Most whites were Chardonnay, the reds mostly Cab’s and Merlots.
So, for this WBW, I went back to the supermarket, bought two bottles of Australian chardonnay and I opened them tonight, to celebrate the 4th birthday of this great wine e-vent.
Wine number one is the BIN 7000, McGuigan, Yaldara Estate, South Australia, 2007. In the nose the usual ananas, fat, butter, vanilla and a hint of orange. The taste is as you’d expect from a rather cheap, Australian chardonnay, except for the bit of bitter that I don’t like.
My second wine is the Hardys Varietal Range, South Eastern Australia, 2007. A chardonnay, too. This wine is a bit more acidic, with some hints of apple and coriander – besides the usual things (vanilla, fat, ananas,…).
This second one is my favourite of the two, a very friendly wine, for everyday drinking. Nothing special, but that’s a thing one must not want from wines that cost only 5 or 6 euro.
So, that’s it for this WBW. Thanks, Lenn, for hosting! Looking forward to #49!
