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La Prendina Estate 2008

27 August 2010
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Pinot Grigio Italy Marks & Spencer Mixed case £45 Natural Cork 12.5% This is a wonderfully-crisp, modern, aromatic, dry medium-bodied white wine from the Lombardy region in the North of Italy. The initial bouquet on the nose was of lemon and lime, pear drops and a hint of spiciness. I feel this is a well-knitted, [...]

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Seresin Estate 2005 Riesling – organic and biodynamic from New Zealand

20 August 2010
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Organic. Biodynamic. Sustainable. Buzz words all but do they catch your eye when you’re choosing a wine or a restaurant? I ate recently with representatives of the Sustainable Restaurant Association as they tried to convince me of the viability of sustainability in the restaurant trade. We sampled the food and wine from 3 different central [...]

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Montana Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2009

16 August 2010
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This is one tangy wine. Pour it into your mouth and you’ll get a zinging, citrus powered kick that seizes your unsuspecting taste-buds and gets them leaping about with joyful abandon. It’s a hefty dose, full of grapefruit and gooseberry (the label insists there’s capsicum in there as well). The flavour touches the front of [...]

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2008 Casa Marin ‘Cipreses’ Sauvignon Blanc

9 August 2010
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There we go: Chile – possibly my favourite wine-producing nation in the New World – has gone and done what even New Zealand hasn’t so far managed, and converted me to the wily ways of the Sauvignon Blanc grape. All of my former criticisms of this particular white wine grape have gone out the window [...]

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Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2009

2 August 2010
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Sauvignon Blanc used to grow wild in the South of France and its smell has been unfavourably compared to cat pee. That stands to reason, doesn’t it? ‘Sauvignon’ from ‘Sauvage‘, meaning ‘Wild’ in plain, civilised English. And you could hardly compare something favourably to the smell of cat pee, could you? If there’s one grape [...]

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McGuigan Chardonnay 2009

25 July 2010
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Chardonnay is a very versatile greape. Its ubiquity tells of its comparative simplicity to grow and its unfortunate status as the 1990s wine of choice – favourite beverage of Bridget Jones and favourite name for the firstborn females of WAGs – has left it something of an unfashionable drink in this day and age. For [...]

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Louis Latour Mâcon-Lugny 2008

30 June 2010
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This might be the first time I’ve tried a white Burgundy – it’s certainly the first time I’ve done so knowingly – and while I liked what I tasted I can confess to being a little underwhelmed. An understated white wine from the heart of France, its refreshing citrus and apple flavours would be more [...]

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Tesco Finest Gavi 2008

10 May 2010
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Retailer: Tesco ABV: 12.5% Closure: Cork Price: Tesco Finest 2 for £10 on offer After watching James Martin on Saturday Kitchen on the BBC on Saturday May 1st and watching Chef Bjorn Van Der Horst cook a dish called Al cremate with a little gem, dandelion and watercress salad served with homemade aioli. They recommended [...]

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Canepa Novisimo Sauvignon Blanc 2009

17 March 2010
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ABV: 13% Closure: Screw Top Serving Temp: 10ºC to 12ºC Price: £9.99 approx Retailer: Naked Wines After unscrewing the bottle I took a ‘sniff’ and was hit in the nose immediately with the smell of pears with a hint of grapefruit. My kind of wine I thought and I was not disappointed. It is a [...]

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Oxford Landing Sauvignon Blanc

26 February 2010
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Retailer: CO-OP (Wine of the month) Price: £3.99 Closure: Screw Top ABV: 11% Suitable for vegans A classic Sauvignon Blanc with the flavour of ripe gooseberries and green apples on the nose followed by a clean crisp acidity and a refreshing finish on the palate. I drank it well chilled with friends over lunch (toasted [...]

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35° South Latitude Chardonnay Semillon

18 February 2010
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Producer: San Pedro Retailer: Sainsbury’s Closure: Screw Top ABV: 13% Price: Usually £7.99 but on offer at the moment 3 for £10 The flavours that came through on the first nose to me was of fresh cut melon with vanilla hues. On the first slurp it oozes crisp juicy yet soft in the mouth tropical [...]

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