This has a nice little blue house on the label. Very appealing ripe gooseberry and elderflower aroma. I could put this in Marlborugh. It might be a little richer, but it has all the right flavours. Good.





30/04/09

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mel

Yeah, I'm with Mel on this.

We got ours from Tony Laith'whats'it. Sweet blue house on a bevelled looking silvery label.

I'd say a bit fuller and with wonderful mouth feel as well - ticks all the Malborough SB boxes for a less "alluvial shale river bed" style. You'd be very hard pushed to find an MSB at £8.99 with as good mouth feel and correctness of balance.

Not really for you Goose - it's not mean with attitude, and doesn't cut your tonge in half

The best uncomplicated Chilean SB I've had these last 3 years. Very well made wine.

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Duncan

Dunc....i'm shocked at these continued insinuations that I have a razor palate and like my wine as sharp as a bowlful of unripe redcurrants.

I'll have you know that I like my sb to be light in body and pungent in flavour with no oak, richness or tartness whatsoever. The Loire sb's should be bone dry, pale with a gooseberry like flavour with an aftertaste of nettles. ( someone once described the liquid produced from boiling nettles as being green and slightly nutty hence nettles being used as a commen tasting note for a classic Sancerre. Why anyone would want to boil a nettle I don't know. But still, they did and there you go.)

Marlborough sb's should be a fraction off dry (2/10), pale with a strong smell of blackcurrant and a taste of blackcurrant and a long lingering aftertaste of raw green pepper. Sadly....too few Marlboroughs are worth the bother these days and I am contemplating giving up and sticking to the Loire with the odd experimental Aussie thrown in.

Not a single 2008 Marlborough came anywhere near past vintages of Saint Clair and Jackson Estate. Either tartness or richness let down just about every single one including the decent ones like Tawhiri and Saint Clair @ Majestic. Maybe 2009 will be better.

As for razor palate.....That's just rubbish. Ok, I have had 11 tongue transplants over the last 5 years but that's not the point.

And the surgeon's decison to cover my latest tongue with sandpaper is not the point either.

I have an elegant and refined palate.

So there !

G

And so you do, good Sir.

Thanks for the two para.'s extolling the virtues of 1st rate Sauvignon blanc. It's good to get a summary from someone who knows

Hey I'm glad I had a taste of a few 2007 MSB's that you pointed at in the stores - Yeah, I mean that G.

Cheers G.

In the meantime folks - Summer is back for 5 minutes .... Enjoy

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Duncan

Evening chaps, just stumbled across majestic selling 07 Jackson Estate : Majestic JE offer 6.99 if 2 or more bottles bought.
Obviously I don't need to to tell you to check with store to make sure you'll get the 07 vintage...

Opened my last Jackson Estate 07 yesterday: fresh and zingy with a slightly mellower finish.
Had given SB a swerve for a while due to a mixture of overkill, some bad examples of mass produced tut and also wanting to give some other grapes a go.
Therefore this was a nice change and has rekindled my taste for SB again...