Calvet Limited Release Sauvignon Blanc 2010, Bordeaux, France (£6.49 Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose) Crisp zesty young wine, with refreshing grapefruit and lemon flavours plus a slightly ripe nectarine edge, and a touch lemon-grass herbiness. B(+) McHenry Hohnen Semillon Sauvignon 2010, Margaret River, Australia (£11.99 – £12.99 Bablake Wines, The City […]
Dry Whites
UPDATE: just tried another batch of Sauvignons – the video’s here Prestige de Calvet Sémillon/Sauvignon 2010, Bordeaux, France (£10.49- £10.99 Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons) OK pithy lemon character but finishes in rather flat, drab finish, and doesn’t improve with time open. 0 Spar Sauvignon Blanc Vin de Pays d’Oc NV, France […]
Wine Tasting Video: Sauvignon Blanc from Chile, Spain & France
Dourthe La Grande Cuvée Sauvignon Blanc 2010, Bordeaux, France (£6.49-7.99 Waitrose, Majestic) Sappy young wine with an outdoor greenness to it and plenty of crisp, grassy citrus, green apple and elderflower fruit. B(+) Yali National Reserva Sauvignon Blanc 2010, Casablanca, Chile (£8.39 Morrisons) Quite a full and fleshy style, notes […]
Wine Tasting Video: Sauvignon Blanc from Chile, France, South Africa ...
Prestige de Calvet Bordeaux Semillon/Sauvignon 2009, France (£5.24 Sainsbury’s) Nice juicy honest wine, with slightly catty Sauvignon to the fore at the moment, good rounded guava and greengage flavours, with Semillon giving pithy weight. B (Dear Calvet – you must have a web site, let me know where it is […]
Wine Tasting Video: Four Aussies, Four Frenchies – who comes ...
Xerolithia White, Peza 2008, Crete, Greece (£7.99 Oddbins) Nice mix of richness and crispness, rounded and fleshy, with some pineapple flavours, but also a slightly pithy, piney edge and an almost volcanic note on the finish. B(+) Alois Lageder ‘Vogelmaier’ Moscato Giallo 2006, Alto Adige, Italy (£7.60 in the Bibendum […]
Miscellaneous whites from Australia, France, Greece and Italy
Ferngrove “Symbols” Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon 2009, Frankland River, Western Australia (£8.99-£9.50 Seckford Agencies) Crisp, grassy, herby, with the Semillon adds punchy pungent weight to the citrussy treble notes of Sauvignon. Nice seafood style. B+ Leaping Lizard Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc 2009, Western Australia (£7.99-£8.50 Seckford Agencies) Not as immediate and forward as the […]