Shezza wrote: was that last tasting note by you D relating to said Sancerre?
I got the same offer again in my inbox today
Don't think I'll bother
This what I thought last Valentines day.
Mouth feel is well above the discounted price - I was surprised, having just finished a Grand cuvee sancerre as an appero before we sat down. We had this wine with Waitrose smoked **salmon, mild cream & chive cheese on mini higher baked pancakes - less **salty that the cheaper packs from Sains & Tesco.
The wine is a bright fruit LSB, ripe gooseberry, sweetish green pepper and lime, a touch of lime skin zest, not pungent, yet nicely free of any sulphur. Less dry than some, but enough fruit for smokey fish and cream cheese. Minerality a little low, but then, so is the dosh. No *battery acid here
Shezz, Unless Goose says that the recent release of the 2010 is fading fast, I am more than likely going with this: It is the 2010 vintage, the last of the balanced cheapo Loire vintages for a while **. The future looks dull, and I don't want to spread bad calma .....But.
The reviews for Domaine Jacky Marteau Sauvignon Blanc were for the 2010 vintage, they were written in November 11 and Feb 12. The supermarkets are naughty to hang Decanter and IWC awards on last year's vintages ! But of course, in a poor year, an IWC winner would have been a wine at the low end of the scores in a good year.
The '11's are not clever drinking (see Mr G's recent opinions), and the 12's will be dire when / or IF you have been enjoying the ripe Loire SB of recent years. So, at the mo, I'm looking for some vouchers, and then I shall take 6.
The starting point at £16 a bottle is clearly a load of absolute bunkum.
Future growing conditions:
**Given the prospects of an even wetter northern hemisphere climate, for latitudes 47 degrees north and in the west - Long term forecasts don't look great. Jet stream is far further south and running down the middle of the channel, hitherto the stream ran at the Aberdeen latitude.
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