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Vintage: 2005
Purchased: Jan 24th 2008
Price: $9.00
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Tasting Notes:
This is a great quaffable white wine that is a good value for the price. It's a light straw color with grapefruit and peach aroma and flavors. There is just a touch of grassieness, but nothing like a wine from New Zealand.
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Vintage: 2006
Purchased: Aug 30th 2007
Price: $14.50
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Tasting Notes:
We were having a simple dinner of grilled goat cheese and roasted beet sandwiches, when Kathrine decided that she wanted a crisp white wine to go with it. I thought for a minute and suggested this. We had first tried this wine in a blind tasting, and were both fooled into thinking it was from New Zealand.
In the glass it's a very light straw color, almost totally clear. The nose is all ripe grapefruit and freshly cut grass. On the palate the same flavors as the nose dominate with a crisp acidity that keeps it all in focus. It slightly more full bodied than the New Zealand wines (from the addition of semillion?) and does not have the distinctive cat pee/gooseberry flavors.
Everyone who tried this wine liked it very much.
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Vintage: 2005
Purchased: Jan 2nd 2007
Price: $7.99
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Tasting Notes:
I'd never tired a white Bordeaux before, and at $7.99 how can you pass up a crisp, dry white from Entre-deux-Mers? I picked this up at Metropolitan Market and waited for the right time to uncork it.
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Alton Brown's mighty duck. Normally, I'd think a pinot noir would suit duck better, but the bitter greens made me think that something with a lot of acidity would be good. I was right, and boy was this wine acidic. It had the aroma of lemon grass and melons, but when tasting it the most prominent flavor was of lime and lemon. When paired with the bitter greens the acid was much less noticeable and the flavors of apple and pear became more prevalent.
This wine was good, especially for the price. I'm not sure how it compares to the sauvignon blanc from the United States and New Zealand though. It's defiantly worth the money and does very well paired with bitter greens. I also think a heavy cream sauce would be wonderful with it. It would also be very refreshing on a hot summer day.
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