Catena Barrel Fermented Chardonnay

At some point, dear readers, I reviewed a lovely wine called The Sail Chardonnay. It was bloody marvellous. This is actually background information....

Sorry. I'll start again.

At some point, dear reader, I reviewed a lovely wine called ohhhhh wait I did that. The real background information is thus...

Chablis is a classic style - for many the classic style - of Chardonnay. Chablis itself is indeed the best-known form of this style (which for the sake of argument is the Chablis style). The Sail Chardonnay, previously reviewed, was deeper and richer than Chablis, but retained aspects of the crisp, fresh approach. Catena Chardonnay does NOT retain these aspects. Catena is the absolute opposite of Chablis. Except that Catena is a brand and Chablis is a region. And they have things in common, like being a wine, and white, and in a bottle - but meh, you get the gist. Catena is barrel fermented. What in the name of Jesus does that mean? Honestly, I have no idea. Well, I have a vague idea, but too vague to have any chance at all of explaining it to anyone else. However, the end result is thus: buttery; biscuity; vanilla; rich; full bodied. Yes, full bodied. Why the hell not?

This post is for two types of people
 1) You don't like white wine because it all tastes the same / rubbish / like Jacob's Creek
2) You think all Chardonnay tastes like Chablis and you like it / don't like it / I don't care

If you are one of these, go and buy something like this. Or actually this. Have it with roast chicken/vegetables/smash.

PS. sorry about using the word 'thus'. But I actually really like it as a word. Thus I use it a lot.