2007 Villa Maria Cellar Selection Sauvignon Blanc Tesco £9.99 - was discounted to £6.67 for a multi buy clearance offer.
14% alcohol and too hot for me. Tropical fruit and capsium flavour and very full bodied.
Well, that was Mr Goose's assessment of the 2006 in blue.
REVISITED - However the 2007 is better, because the fruit salad, mango, pink grapefriut and ridge cuccumber (not those tasteless hothouse Dutch things) is still right in your face, and there is still enough acidity to keep the whole thing racey and palate cutting.
If you find this 2007 vintage anywhere that has been discounted to move stock and provided it has been stored correctly, Check you will not be dissapointed
. I cracked a bottle on Sunday evening. It had matured, so that the 14% alchohol was not so hot as it would be, had it been fresh and young and had integrated enough to make a delighful sipping apperatif from the fridge. I would have been very happy at £8.99. Do not leave in the glass for more than 25 minutes or so, as the alcohol becomes oily and the wine flabby ( just like a worn out 10 yr old floral Graves without oak) unless you want that sort of wine of course.
Drink this fuller style, the 2007 by the end of 2009, or, if stored in the dark at an ave. of 48 degrees F or so, before August 2010.