About Us

This site evolved during a mission to try all the unoaked Chardonnays because it is our favorite variety of wine. Besides, everyone needs a hobby.

A basic list of what we had tried soon included photos and comments about not just what we thought of the wines, but also what the wines made us consider or what we were doing at the time. It was a kitchen list; a way to avoid re-purchasing something we didn't like. It was personal.

Then one night while searching the internet for news about what we should be sampling since we had already run through every unoaked Chardonnay in the local shops, we discovered that no one owned this web address. So we poured another glass of chilled unoaked, laughed ourselves silly, and bought this URL for a place to put our notes.

We aren't connoisseurs. We don't swoosh or spit or pair wine with this meal or that. We simply drink the style of wine we like the most, the way most people drink wine; we taste it against ... itself. And we just want to know what tastes good.

So although Unoaked Chardonnay started as a silly list of our sips and samplings, it's grown into something more.

The site itself has had several design incarnations to accommodate the growing list, and to make both inputting and viewing less cumbersome. We have included ads to help pay for sharing the mission. It is finally mobile-friendly on the majority of internet-capable cell devices.

Today it's nearly a full time job to find and procure the wines, drink the wines (awww, poor us), photograph, write about and post, check for typos, stew about the grammar, plus select appropriate advertising partners and products, while also making sure the ads operate correctly. We did have a food page, then we didn't have a food page. But it's back because wine and food are best friends, and it just adds to the fun. Still, we don't pair them up because there is no way to compare the infinite possibilities. To our way of thinking.