A really great bottle of white wine at the $10-$12 price range is basically unheard of, and frankly I don’t really need one on Tuesday nights. What I’d like is a tasty value wine to sip while I sort through the mail. If it works well with a simple snack, all the better.

At its Woodinville tasting room (across the street from that strip mall with Purple Cafe in it), Prosser-based Airfield Estates sells an entire lineup of inexpensive whites.

Right now I’m liking the Fly Girls White—a blend of Viognier, Gewürztraminer, Roussanne, and Chardonnay. I don’t like the Fly Girls label—the little airplane emblem is so cool, I don’t know why they had to go with the dated-looking vintage illustration thing for this one—but I was brought up to look past such things. The sweetness contrasts winningly with my current snack crush: roasted-tomato salsa and seed-flecked tortilla chips from Trader Joes.

And the unoaked chard is a rock-star value at $12. If you’ve always despised the big, rich, buttery, oaky qualities of chardonnay, let Airfield reintroduce you to a lovely, and much abused, wine grape.