Community Tasting Note

TannicBeast wrote:

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - Tasted blind. Clear, pale straw. Med (+) to high intensity, slightly reductive nose dominated by green, weedy, vegetal pyrazine notes, with some tart lemon peeking through. No new oak apparent. Dry, with med (+) to high acidity, med (+) alcohol (13.5%). Med to med (+) body, with pronounced concentration and med (+) length. Drink now, not likely to improve with further aging.

This is clearly Sauvignon Blanc. The hard question is whether it's from Sancerre, NZ, SB-heavy Bordeaux White or California. In hindsight, what appeared to be cool climate tendencies were merely the result of picking the fruit a little early, to minimize the sugar/alcohol. Also, what appeared to be smoky, mousy, reductive aromas were in fact the result of fermentation and extensive lees aging in oak barrels. There's not enough minerality for it to be Sancerre and not enough fat and French oak spice for it to be a White Bordeaux. I actually thought it was NZ.

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