Bob poured a glass of this for me. I was feeling a bit beat up over something and just needed to relax over a cool glass of wine so I wasn't exactly paying attention in the way I normally would, but I had seen the bottle (left here by a guest a week ago) so just accepted that I was drinking chardonnay until toward about the end of the glass I realized it tasted nothing like chardonnay, even a cool climate one. It was green-leafy, underripe, hollow and a bit bitter on the finish. Pondering that and looking anew at the pale color, I decided I must have only assumed it was chardonnay (not knowing Argyle to make any other white), that this must be pinot grigio, and got up to look at the bottle. Nope, it was indeed chardonnay, and it desperately needed food or a rhododendron to fertilize. Two thumbs down, "life's too short" and all that, so Bob trotted out to the cellar and brought back a:
2007 Mer et Soleil "Silver", California
Similar pale color on this unwooded chardonnay but rich with lacticity. In fact, so much so you could opine that its malo-lactic underwent malo-lactic.
A bit sweet and so heavy on the finish it's almost surprising that it wasn't more tactile and viscuous, but there was satisfying ripe-to-overripe fruit nonetheless and it was more up to the task of providing comfort than the Argyle had been. Also, in fine shape for it's age: could hold here for years.