This evening, my husband and I were feeling particularly adventuresome, thinking about all of the wonderful things that the prospect of a new decade starting with 2010, can mean for us.  With such ambitious endeavors for our future, we thought it best to have a wine that would match our aspirations for the future.  And rightfully, we chose to drink the bottle of Chateau Montelena that we had been saving in cellar for a special occasion.  We decided that feeling good was indeed special enough!

For those of you unfamiliar with the Chateau Montelena, it is the presitigious Chardonnay from California that won the famous competition against the French wines back in 1976.*  Back then, when Napa Wineries were nothing but a bastion of dreams and hopes and yet they did, in just their passion for winemaking alone, beat out French first growths like Haut Brion (hundreds of years old) in this famous competion!

It is to this wine that we dedicate this evening!  Knowing that with its blessings, our own hopes and dreams too will come to fruition and achieve success like this wine did: unexpectedly, elegantly, and with a class of its own setting the tone for an ambitious future.

Tasting notes:  Lovely aroma of pineapples and citrus scent.  Color of light yellow golden straw.  Delicious taste and soft flavors ending with a lovely finish of vanilla.  Scrumptious.  Divine.  Decadent just the same.  Truly Dreams coming true.

P.S.  We were drinking the 2007, not the 1976 one that won but it was just as good to us nonetheless.

* Go see "Bottle Shock" to get the full story on how it happened or read the George Taber book about it.

Cheers!!

FWC