Cupcake Chardonnay

Name: Cupcake Vineyards
Color: White
Varietal: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2008
Country/State: California
Region: Central Coast
Price: $10
Stars: 4 (out of 5)



We enjoyed this wine last night with rotisserie chicken and salad. We had previously tasted it at a local wine tasting at Ed's Fine Wines in Safety Harbor. Krista really liked it then, so I picked up a bottle a couple of weeks ago when I was at Leuken's Liquors in Dunedin. The Cupcake Chardonnay was very nice...easy drinking, well balanced, with a medium body. It was crisp, clean, and refreshing, and tasted primarily of citrus and white fruit with some cream and vanilla imparted by the 9 months it was aged in American oak. The oak presence was not over-bearing; it was more in the background and didn't detract at all from the taste and drinkability.

This was one of the better Chardonnays we've had recently and we will definitely keep it on our list.