American Chablis?

Can anyone recommend any California, or any American, chardonnay done in more of a Chablis style? And I mean Chablis, not chablis.

(apologize if posted twice - first one doesn't appear for me....)

No such thing exists.

There are some American chards that are more the French style than the 'whack you in the face with a plank" style, but none get even close to a real Chablis (Gallos old commercials notwithstanding).

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Bill Spohn) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m18.aol.com:

Although Lefevre has tried of late to provide the reverse, a Cal style Chardonnay with an AOC Chablis label!

And if the Cal version did exist it would cost about 25% more than the original real deal.

Why do you say that?

"jeffc" wrote in news:iA2Kb.235449$I53.10796792 @twister.southeast.rr.com:

check out the prices of rather ordinary Rhone clones, Fess Parker, or Cotes d' Oakley for instance, For the same money you can buy stellar French Rhones CdP or even some of the better Northern Rhones.

You might try a NYS chardonnay - most show little or no oak, and have something closer to a Chablis fruit/acid balance. Hermann Wiemer makes a good one if you can find it (though he's better known for his rieslings).

The only California one I know of, and I just bought another case today after finishing off my first case, is the Geyser Peak 2002 chardonnay. Dry, crisp, more like a sauvignon blanc (actually, I'd ordered the Geyser Peak

Both are about $12 a bottle.