Chardonnay

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Hi, Anders. Please don't take offense, but I had imagined that you were in Sweden! I have no idea why I had assumed so.

I'm envious of your tap water. I have to RO mine to make it palatable. :^/

Tom S

Guilty as charged. :^/

I know that I do because it's been pointed out to me by others who aren't into wine. It's sort of like snoring; you don't know you do until someone else tells you that you do.

I sniff too (absentmindedly).

Tom S

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I'm born in Sweden, still have a Swedish passport and a summer house in Sweden - a mere 130 miles from here :-) But I've lived in Norway since the age of four. No offense taken. :-) Anders

True for Vienna, too, btw. There are two water pipelinies built in the 19th century (Erste und Zweite Wiener Hochquellenwasserleitung) that brings water right from the source in the Alps.

M.

Ah, yes, I've indeed enjoyed drinking water in Austria (Tirol) - but I didn't know that about Vienna. But are those old pipelines still sufficient to supply a modern big city? Anders

I'd say: yes. Don't forget, that Vienna around 1900 was a city of over 2 million inhabitants, while today we are at about 1.8 million. I have no idea about size of the pipelines, but they have impressive aqueducts and historism pump houses along their way from the alps.

Hochquellwasser in Vienna has another phantastic advantage: cool Temperature. It's around 10°C in summer and 8°C in winter - just about perfect to cool two or three bottles in the wash basin (or a greater number of bottles in the bath tub).

M.

I don't have too much to add on Australian chardonnays, but I found a pretty good French one that you might want to try if you haven't yet. A couple of nights ago, I tried a Rully (named Les saint-Jacques) from A. et P. de Villaine (which is part-owned by Aubert de Villaine from Domaine de la Romaneée-Conti - nice little side project if you ask me). Rully is a 100% chard appellation in Burgandy. It was fantastic

- it's the only Rully I've ever had, so I can't say if it's typical or not, but it was a world away from the big California chards - it was nice and subtle, with apricot aromas and a crisp taste with a bit of mineral in the finish. It was a bit too steep for everyday drinking - $35 - but it's worth it for a nice occasional change-up. I'm on the lookout for another Rully to see if that's the norm. Unfortunately, I think the Villaine Rully is a bit limited in production, so I don't know how widely available it is . . . good luck!

- Mark

I don't have too much to add on Australian chardonnays, but I found a pretty good French one that you might want to try if you haven't yet. A couple of nights ago, I tried a Rully (named Les saint-Jacques) from A. et P. de Villaine (which is part-owned by Aubert de Villaine from Domaine de la Romaneée-Conti - nice little side project if you ask me). Rully is a 100% chard appellation in Burgandy. It was fantastic

- it's the only Rully I've ever had, so I can't say if it's typical or not, but it was a world away from the big California chards - it was nice and subtle, with apricot aromas and a crisp taste with a bit of mineral in the finish. It was a bit too steep for everyday drinking - $35 - but it's worth it for a nice occasional change-up. I'm on the lookout for another Rully to see if that's the norm. Unfortunately, I think the Villaine Rully is a bit limited in production, so I don't know how widely available it is . . . good luck!

- Mark

Imported into the U.S. by Kermit Lynch. It's wonderful, I agree. The story is that Villaine supposedly wanted the vineyard to grow the best aligote in France and he got that in Rully. There was soil better suited for something other than aligote so he planted chardonnay there. Some wine snobs seem to think of it as an after thought, but it's good wine.