When I picked up the bottle of Twenty Three Unoaked Chardonnay, the tour guide told me it was cheap plonk, and that I wouldn’t want that sort of thing.  That’s what First Pour Wine does best though.  Drinking it, so you don’t have to!

Sight:  A firm gold, with tints of yellow.

Smell:   Lemon, fruity pebbles, and a strange mix of acidity all come together to resemble something vaguely reminscient of gastric.   Vaguely under ripe stone fruit comes in.

Sip:  The body starts vaguely sweet, and lapses into a powdered sugar kind of note.  There’s a slightly rubbery note here and a distinct underripeness to the fruit which maybe pear with hints of lemon.  The body is quite bright, and not particularly round.

Savor:  The end is clean, with good lemon and crispness.   That slightly underripe fruit note lingers.

Twenty Three Unoaked Chardonnay 2012 isn’t particularly ripe or fresh.  While there are all kinds of ways this wine could be better, it might be better to leave it at this, Twenty Three Unoaked Chardonnay 2012 is a poor stand in for a California unoaked Chardonnay, but a drinkable wine.

Verdict:  Lemon, Unripe Fruit, Bright
Rating: 59
Price: $10
Niagara On The Lake, Ontario, Canada