An Old Beauty

My latest 'wine gig' was to photograph two special chardonnays from Grgich Hills Cellars including their very first, the 1977 chardonnay. Naturally I taste everything.

Though the 1977 didn't have the vibrancy of younger wines, nor did it have any nose left, it still held its chardonnay structure intact. You knew you were sipping a chardonnay.

What a delightful surprise to see its exquisite inner views.

This was the oldest chardonnay I've ever tasted (or photographed). Would you expect California chardonnays to last 30 years, what about white Burgundies? What of the chardonnay character lasts?