Class, I don't think so ! This wine was in the "Kiwi Class" case from Tesco.

Given the money that was knocked off two bottles of Cloudy Bay 2011, this wine would have been about £7.49 or so.

The wine has a very different personality when serving at different temperatures - Very different indeed.

At cellar temperature the wine does have some pungency, a little cut grass, passion fruit and grapefruit, but at that temperature the wine has very little grip, or signature flavour. Slow on the palate and without lift.

Serve this wine from the fridge, swirl in the glass, and the nose is benign. The cold wine has a hard bitten mouth feel, little or no tropical fruit, tangy, but insufficient fruit to give me pleasure. Green gooseberry, jonquil grapefruit, unripe lime. It is a very dry style, and there is little to love about this wine, the finish is astringent, flavour tails off abruptly.

This wine reminds me of The Crossings 2006 and the fruit of the difficult 2008 vintage when harvested a bit too early.

I'll have to try and find the right temperature to serve, to be able to finish both bottles ! No, not for me.

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Duncan

Invivo Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2011 (sc) Full of flavour and pungency with mouthfilling green apples, juicy grapes, tomato, capsicum, lime, gooseberry and passionfruit, a bright tangy finish and a toasty richness to the lingering aftertaste. A terrific wine. 12.5% alc. $15.99. 25Jan2012.

Sue Courtney

The words tomato and toasty richness had already put me off this but thanks for the note MrD.

Good to hear that you're falling for the JE 2011.

Cheers G; tosh from Ms Courtney - Unless I had a duffer of a bottle ? Returned the Invivo pair back to the store, they were most polite, and got a credit towards other wines in the 7 day 25% campaign.

As for falling for the particular:-

I'm lining up an Ocado offer for the elegant JE 2011, which I know will be thilling when it's ready. To add to that order I'm asking Ocado to confirm the Joseph Drouhin Chorey-les-Beaune vintage available from their warehouse. Hopefully they confirm the one that I want.

The fighting among the stores - suits me

Keep well Mr G.

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Duncan