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Welcome!  This blog is focused on finding value-priced wines that offer excellent taste and quality.                      Please feel free to add comments about the posts and make suggestions for other excellent wines that can be purchased for under $25.

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Most of the posts will focus on a single wine.  Every couple weeks, I'll try to summarize all of the wines discussed so far for a particular type of wine like Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon.  Occasionally, I'll offer a news article or a "How to" article on various topics (tasting wine, collecting wine, storing wine, etc.).  The posts are tagged with keywords that are listed on the right side below.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

2008 Chateau St. Jean Chardonnay - and 2007 Chateau St. Jean Chardonnay, Robert Young Vineyard (Alexander Valley)

My favorite value-priced chardonnay is made by Chateau St. Jean (Sonoma, California).  The price is usually around $12-14 (list price $14), but I've found it for as low as $9 a bottle (I believe it was at Costco or Safeway).

A more upscale Chardonnay is the 2007 Chateau St. Jean, Robert Young Vineyard (Alexander Valley) that sells for $20-$23 (list price $25) and is crisper, drier and just delicious IMO.  With some searching, you can usually find it discounted for under $20.

From Robert Parker, "Chateau St. Jean is an excellent source for value-priced, high-quality wines.  They are often considered primarily a white wine-producing estate because of the brilliant quality of their Fume Blancs and Chardonnays, but they also fashion very fine Cabernet Sauvignons as well as an excellent Bordeaux blend called Cinq Cepages."
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