Citations:ABC

anything but Chardonnay

 * 2005 Barbara Nowak, "The Everything Wine Book"
 * ABC "Anything but Chardonnay." You've probably heard the mantra. Chardonnay is ubiquitous. Some would say boring.
 * 2006 Jancis Robinson, "The Oxford companion to wine"
 * ABC, acronym for the weary sentiment 'Anything But Chardonnay (or Cabernet)' which encouraged interest in grapes other than the (two most famous) International Varieties on the part of both producers and consumers.