NV Sainsbury's Chardonnay Taste the Difference Low Alcohol Blanc de Blanc

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  2/8/2019 - scyrene wrote: 77 Points

  Yes it is called 'blanc de blanc' [sic]. Packaged like their other own brand premium wines, which is nice (some alcohol-free wines are positioned more like spritzers). Strictly speaking, this is low-alcohol rather than truly non-alcoholic, although the content is essentially negligable. As a bit of fun I tried to taste it blind alongside another pure chardonnay sparkler, Aldi's stalwart Crémant du Jura, but there was no mistaking which was which.
  
  Lemon colour. Coarser bead in the glass than its alcoholic partner. A strange, savoury, saline nose - borderline canned tuna (this is found in some regular sparkling wines however) - but no fruit. A flavour I’ve come to recognise in these low-alcohol wines: green grape and not much else. Fruity with a fine acid-sugar balance, but no complexity and once again it doesn’t fool the palate. It doesn’t seem to matter what variety they use, they all taste like this. Pleasant and inoffensive, nicely priced for the presentation. [Composite cork + cage; <0.5% abv; Sainsbury’s, £3.50].

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