Stunning flavour but 13.5% alcohol and ageing on it's lees shows. The wine is far too rich to be enjoyable.

Shame as this could be quite lovely.

Goose - What about this one with food - oily fish or even shell fish with a little chilli heat. Would this over concentration or excess body or both, be suitable ?

Too many questions here, as we dont know why the wine was not racked-off earlier, or whether the must was straight fruit and selected yeasts ....or done up.

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Duncan

I had this with lemon sole and a very light butter and herb sauce. They did not complement each other at all.

I could be wrong but all the medals seem to be going to rich, complex sauvignons so I guess more and more of the world's sb makers are going to make flavoursome but heavy going wines like this.

Where there are medals there are profits I guess.

Montana's basic may be a sharp, tart little bugger but give me that over this any day.

I agree that a tart little bugger would be better with fish, but there is something wonderful about a rich, ripe (and, sorry, sometimes oaked) sauvignon. Perhaps best just enjoyed by itself, or with a herby little crisp.

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mel

Yeah, I like herby little Italian crispies and good cheese sticks, NOT at all salty mind, with mature Gevrey.

I dunno, I'm full of dunnos today. What happened to finese, delicacy, and subtlety ? Eh. Exactly Who votes when these awards are offered ?

A thimble full of a sledge hammer when tasting, is a lot easier to take than two thirds of a bottle.

Look what happened to over egged Ozzy Chardonnay in the end !

Errazuriz use to make really nice claret clones at the beginning & mid '90's. Then what hapenned - we had to have something that you paint the bloody fence with.

The Jury is out i, I just want some dancing delicacy please. Yet I do appreciate a fuller Pessac mix with some bottle age which has dimension, and I do like the one with the little blue house on the label - this one was not too heavy at all: Leyda Single Vineyard Garuma Sauvignon 07 Wait 8.99

Mel liked it as well and put a Star up.

Full of bl***dy dunnos today - the 2004 Rully from Rodet was nice and subtle.....but much more dosh

I going off to have a glass of JE'07.

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Duncan

I quite liked the Tapihue I had recently.

I'm going to have to see what Goose means about over heavy, over rich.

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Duncan

By rich I mean full bodied almost as if a small part of the wine was fermented in oak. A classic example of a Marlborough ( in body not taste ) would be a Montana Reserve or a Grove Mill. Tesco Finest is also a lot like this.

Rich and ripe.