Tasting Notes - With Bryn and Jaff
Aug 6, 2026 · 1 hr 55 min · 16 segments
Bryn and Jaff leave the winery's of South America behind them, which means it's time to get Jake back...and this time he comes armed with a bottle of Chardonnay from somewhere a lot closer to home!…
We should go on a Chardonnay journey.
Yeah, absolutely.
How did you feel about that, Geoff? Well, I don't think I like Chardonnay, but look at me and Bryn.
What spurred you on to take us down the Chardonnay journey?
Well, the very fact that you both said that.
And not have any sort of mean-spirited...
He's sadistic.
No.
Because I think Chardonnay is probably the most misunderstood and maligned grape variety out there because we all assume...
Here we go.
This is the meat of it.
Well, I think it's...
Because of the age we are.
You know, we grew up when...
I'm in my 20s.
Speak for yourself,
Jake.
I am a spring chicken.
Your parents may have known about it.
But certainly when I... first got into wine, you know, it was the end of the 90s, 80,000s.
The oaky Australian, Californian Chardonnay thing was massive.
That's where everyone was drinking.
People naming their footballers' wives' children Chardonnay and things like this.
I mean, it was a style that was really approachable.
It had its time.
We should go on a Chardonnay journey.
Yeah, absolutely.
How did you feel about that, Geoff? Well, I don't think I like Chardonnay, but look at me and Bryn.
What spurred you on to take us down the Chardonnay journey?
Well, the very fact that you both said that.
And not have any sort of mean-spirited...
He's sadistic.
No.
Because I think Chardonnay is probably the most misunderstood and maligned grape variety out there because we all assume...
Here we go.
This is the meat of it.
Well, I think it's...
Because of the age we are.
You know, we grew up when...
I'm in my 20s.
Speak for yourself,
Jake.
I am a spring chicken.
Your parents may have known about it.
But certainly when I... first got into wine, you know, it was the end of the 90s, 80,000s.
The oaky Australian, Californian Chardonnay thing was massive.
That's where everyone was drinking.
People naming their footballers' wives' children Chardonnay and things like this.
I mean, it was a style that was really approachable.
It had its time.
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