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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: 2005
Purchased: Sep 13th 2007
Price: $11.99
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Tasting Notes:
This is a wine that would be a decent wine at about twice the price. At the price I got it for, my only regret is I didn't buy more.
It is a bright gold color. The nose is a combination of fresh pear, orange and lemon. There are components of flowers, grass and anise just underneath. The acids are gentle but give plenty of support to the flavor. It is medium bodied with orchard fruit flavors and pleasantly bitter grapefruit note adding interest. The finish is juicy and pliant, ending on a note of spice and grass.
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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: 2006
Purchased: Jun 24th 2007
Price: $6.00
Purchase Location: Uwajimaya
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Tasting Notes:
I like French sauvignon blanc best of all the versions. This is a pretty stunning example of what you can get from France for not a lot of money.
The wine is a pale straw color, very light in the glass. The aromas are of apple, grapefruit, and mineral. It's quite brisk and refreshing with the apple and grapefruit dominating, and just a little of the herbaciousness that you sometimes get from the grape.
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Vintage: 2006
Purchased: Jan 20th 2007
Price: $14.99
Purchase Location: Costco
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Tasting Notes:
I've been meaning to try this wine for a while. Everyone raves about it and is consistently on top QPR lists in every magazine. Kathrine wanted fish for dinner, and I thought it would make a nice pairing with pan roasted halibut.
This is a very pale wine. Straw colored with a hint of green to it. The nose is quite strong. There are scents of lemon grass, citrus, and a herbaceous character that I couldn't identify. But then Kathrine said it smelled like Thai food, and I had to agree. The herbal smell was Thai basil.
On the palate it was quite acidic and tart. The main tastes where of grapefruit and gooseberry (I even bought some gooseberry jam so I'd have a frame of reference). There was a slight vegetative quality that was hard to place. Once again, Kathrine came to the rescue and said it was roasted red bell pepper. I got the bell pepper, but it didn't taste roasted to me.
All in all, this was a very interesting wine. Maybe too interesting. This isn't something I'd want to drink every day, but it is nice wine to have every once in a while. With all the flavors this wine displays I could see you pairing it with almost any food.
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Vintage: 2005
Purchased: Jan 2nd 2007
Price: $7.99
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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.
I decided to serve it with
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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