Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Region: Seaview Vineyard
Country: New Zealand
Year: 2008
Price: $7.95
Vintage Cellar review: This aromatic wine shows lifted flavours of blackcurrant with underlying notes of wet stone and thyme. The palate is elegant yet full with sufficient weight and texture, balanced by a flinty minerality. This wine is a fantastic match with foods such as cheese salad, poultry dishes and a wide range of seafood dishes including freshly shucked natural oysters, prawns, green lip mussels and creamy scallops.
My review: This Sauvignon Blanc is extremely heavy on the nose. Very big, pungent, weighty, grassy, leafy, and green. The nose really reminds me of the aroma of split pea soup. The taste is very salty and dry at first, then the acidity and green garden vegetables come through: bell pepper, carrots, maybe even Brussels sprouts. It has a very long finish. I really did not enjoy this wine; it was like drinking liquid salt and vinegar. Even though I only had a tasting of it, I wouldn't want an entire class of it much less. I think this Sauvignon Blanc would go best with a dish that masks it's salty, vinegar taste, like cheese, a seafood dish with a light creamy and buttery sauce.
I had this wine without food.
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