Grape - Sauvignon Blanc
Alcohol - 13.5%
Available from - Waitrose, waitrosecellar.com, Ocado
Price - £11.99 (although £8.99 until Tuesday at Waitrose)
Appearance - Clear, lemon-green, medium- intensity
Nose - Clean, medium intensity, green fruits of pear and gooseberry, herbal (nettle). Youthful.
Palate - Dry, high acid, medium+ alcohol, full bodied, medium+ length, medium+ intensity. As nose, plus stone fruit and minerality.
Very good quality, drink now.
Delicious Sauvignon Blanc can be found outside of Loire, Bordeaux and Marlborough, as this award-winning example demonstrates. This is a classy wine, with real weight in the mouth, a little bit more alcohol than you might find elsewhere, and agreeable complexity.
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