Wine Selection of the week: West Coast California Square Chardonnay

For about $15 dollars you can get this enjoyable buttery wine at Total Wine and More.  

The Bottle:
The bottle is gorgeous and perfectly displays this wine. It looks like it should be a Whiskey bottle and totally stood out to us in the store. When we saw that it was from the Russian River Valley we knew that we had struck gold. The bottle is so cool, we could see it being displayed in some creative way after the wine is gone.

The Wine: The wine itself has a nice balance of fruit, butterscotch and creme brulee.  A lot of wines claim to have certain flavors -but this one really delivers.  The buttery goodness rolls across the tongue, definitely our pick for wine of the week.




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It doesn't have to be expensive to be good....

Wine doesn't have to be expensive to be good.  It isn't the price on the outside of the bottle that makes it a good wine, it is whether you like it and enjoy it that makes a wine a good.  That is why we decided to start  this blog.  We thought the 2 dollar Wine Connoisseur would make a great name to show that a fun wine night can be had at a reasonable price. To demonstrate that you don't have to spend a lot of money to have a good wine experience. The greatest example of this of course is "2 Buck Chuck"  Charles Shaw wines at Trader Joe's.   Sure we would love to have a wine cellar with fancy wines from all over the world. We will buy a pricier wine every once in awhile and we have some wines in the the $10-$20 dollar range,  but to fill those empty spaces in our modest little wine fridge we stock it with some Chuck.  At $2 a bottle it is less expensive then a one liter soda and much more fun.  We first fell in love with Charles Shaw Chardonnay but we are now more into the  Sauvignon Blanc.   It really can't be beat and we actually like it better than a lot of the Chards and Blancs we have tried.  So cheers to Charles Shaw and some quite good wine that doesn't empty the wallet.  So fill up that wine fridge at a cost of $23 dollars a case!! 

For more information on $2 Buck Chuck here is the link 

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