£4.99 on the shelf until 16th March

I bought this Touraine (Loire sauvignon blanc) ostensibly to see what the 2009 SB fruit was like from an excellent growing season.

The fruit is very good and full of typical SB fruit notes (not tropical though). Not tart at all, as you would expect from a good ripening season in the Loire.

The wine making was typical Co-op bulk style, pity, because they manage somehow to extinguish the desirable pithyness that we would like on a Tourraine, and then introduce a touch of sherbet fountain, that we don't want at all.

The wine is very young, and as you untwist the screw cap, you get the typical sulphur whiff from Co-op producer's wine. Fortunately this departs quite quickly. The wine is lemon melon and ripe gooseberry, and you must drink it well chilled, otherwise the end palate is flaccid and the sherbet comes up again.

time for supper I'll finish this later

The 2009 vintage only became available this week at my Waitrose. The web site is clearing the '08. Dont buy this wine unless you find the 2009 on the shelf among all the '08's.
The wine has quite good acidity, and a fresh and fairly ascertive flavour for a cheap Tourraine.
For £4.99 no complaints - but make sure you keep this wine chilled.

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Duncan

I could not get on with this. Wimpy even for Loire. Their chardonnay is a lot better.

Bacchus you drunk and then posted about the 2008 vintage on 17th October 2009.

With respect, your comment about the fresh and ripe '09 vintage above is .........

The wine is best 24 hours in the fridge door, with a glass or two taken.

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Duncan

Will you please return my short and curlies. Not with you on this. Please expand. Oh! shiiite no, forget that...

Got some of this by "accident". Was aiming for the Chardonnay (which was on offer) but missed and got this (which wasn't).
Glad that I did. Much improved from the '08. Cellar now passing 14° and the first glass was all Esso Blue (they asked me how I knew) and forest floor.
Cooler now and really nice. Still a little petrol but it's joined by herby-fruity tones. There is also something hiding...dare I say a teeeny Chablis undertone. No, I mustn't.

I've pleased someone today ! Not bad is it, not bad at all.

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Duncan