2018 Massican Sauvignon Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  1/1/2024 - travelme wrote: 92 Points

  A great top quality Sauv Blanc that hit the spot at Kings Fish house with oysters. 🦪 I absolutely love supporting Dan Petroski and his personal label. Every bottle is always a delight. I got grapefruit, citrus notes, and a hint of pear on the palate. Another delicious Massican!!

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  9/2/2022 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  From a magnum bought at the big box wine store about a year ago. On the nose and palate, medium notes of ruby grapefruit, Meyer lemon gooseberries (good call, msu, as usual), river rocks, green olives, white florals, white melon, white tea and a bit of jasmine. Medium gold, with medium+ body and medium legs. Medium acidity, and while no cat pee or oyster shells in sight, good crispness, no heat. VG complexity, intensity and persistence. I love buying mags—they seem like endless founts of wine (more than I can say that I notice any taste difference)—but sometimes struggle to drink them, but I knew when I bought this, it would likely get popped for a visit with A_M and T_K, as it’s a favorite varietal of hers. Indeed, this was the prole guest for the Bevan-Kaplan-Harlan show, and the guest who brought the Prom pronounced that, after his contribution, it was his winner of the night (compliment to Messr. Petroski? Insult to Messrs. Bevan and Kaplan? IDK). Still, we barely seemed to dent it, yet it held stunningly well over 5 nights of this SF heat wave with salmon, chicken and tonight, sushi, as well on its own. I found the ‘19 good but a bit boring a bit year ago, but I’m not sure whether it’s the extra 2 years here (1 year later plus drinking a year earlier vintage), the social aspect, or God forbid giving my sense of discernment too much credit, the mag format (hey, after all, the 375 Araujo was a fiasco so maybe, as the tee shirts say in this part of the world, size matters), but I’m scoring this a solid point and a half better. There’s a bit of creaminess here, but it’s still leaner than a lot of Sancerres, and there’s good lift, but it won’t give you the feeling of swimming in the Bay or being dropped into a batch of Kumamotos, like the Spottswoode, or a freshly mown hay field or a barrel of grapefruit, like most of the NZ output. Yet it’s worked well with and without food, being served, and consumed, at varying degrees of coolness (I prefer just below cellar temp) and showed no signs of slackening over an extended period of opening. Durability of this indicates to me that, while it’s unlikely to last as long as a Montebello or Montelena of the same vintage, you don’t have to plan on popping in the immediate future. My fondness for Messr. Petroski continues, both at the mothership and on his own. 92+

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  8/3/2021 - Stephen.Somm Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium bodied and refreshing with notes of lemon, lime, green apples, and minerals. Absolutely delicious!

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  7/5/2021 - msuwine wrote: 92 Points

  This light and refreshing Sauvignon Blanc is more tasty than intense - but it’s delicious all the same. Light yellow in color; light in body; aromas of grapefruit, gooseberry, and lemon verbena. Flavors of orange rind, lemon meringue, and crushed quartz, with a zippy finish that subsided after an hour. 13.5% alcohol.
  
  This should be better in 6-12 months, so maybe you should wait for it… but then again, at $30 a bottle, there’s no reason to hesitate… After all, life doesn’t discriminate… we rise and we fall… OK, enough… just listen to the song, see the musical, drink the wine - it’s all very, very good (though, it must be said, the wine is way cheaper!).

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  2/3/2021 - mcar20156 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Rich, but quite fresh as well with a nice mineral backbone. Lovely accompaniment to prawn linguine.

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