Growing up I was always told that wines from California weren’t any good. To quote my dad: "Americans don’t know how to make wine". He was quite a wine snob and when he died his wine cellar only had wines from the Old World, and then especially from France (of course!) But thinking this was the 1980’s I’m not sure the how much wine from the New World you could actually buy in Sweden.
Over the years I’ve become a big fan of wines from the New World with South Africa and Australia as real favourites. But California has been a white spot on my map though. Until last night. One of my neighbours and I had a bit of girls night eating a very simple but delicious asparagus risotto and drinking Fetzer Valley Oak Chardonnay vintage 2004. She was bringing the wine since I was cooking. Not a Californian wine was my immediate thought when she showed me the bottle, but boy was I wrong. A lovely dry and fruity chardonnay with hints of pineapple, grapefruit and just a touch of vanilla. So now I have a whole new range of wines to discover. Hopefully dad isn’t turning in his grave seeing his daughter drinking wine from California. And on top of that she actually thinks it's good …
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