Importer: Rosenthal
Source: Viscount
Consumption Date: 11/1/2012
Notes: Fine aroma of chalky
minerality with tangy fruit (lemon/white grape) and a hint of wet fur. Very crisp and succulent flavors of acidic
fruit (lemon with hints of white grape, grapefruit, and perhaps gooseberry) on
a solid foundation of chalky minerality.
Finishes relatively long with a tangy, chalky minerality.
I believe this wine is my
first Loire Sauvignon Blanc. As such, it
is quite different from any other Sauvignon Blanc I have had. It is very acidic/tangy, but in a quite
enjoyable fashion, with a minimal fruit character, but a very engaging
minerality. It also has distinctive (if
not powerful) aromatics that I have not found in other Sauvignon Blanc. It doesn’t have the opulent fruitiness of a
New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, nor does it have the full, spicy fruitiness that I
associate with the best from California
Value: Good to very good
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