Weekend Wine Notes: 16 California Chardonnays, 2010 and 2011 (Gack!)

I keep reading that there has been a general toning down of oak in chardonnay wines produced in California, but you wouldn't know it from the wines I taste, of which I offer today a selection of 16. I've uttered these sentences before, and I'll probably utter them many more

times before I close the computer a final time and drag my weary fingers to the c…