Sauvignon Blanc

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Full Story: Award Winning Wine From India To Germany - Voxy

At the Expo, I made a beeline for the flag promising “Loire Valley Wines,” and found the crisp, slightly smoky Domaine Margalleau Sec Vouvray, a chenin blanc, for only $13.99. Available at Brookline Liquor Mart, the Domaine des Baumard Savennieres 2005 is a close Sancerre, and although pricier than the beloved jug of Carlo Rossi, is worth the splurge at $26.50.

Searching beyond my comfort zone I found Flamingo Tempranillo, from a Spanish vineyard. A relatively new line to the U.S., Flamingo offers Shiraz, Sauvignon Blanc, Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon, all available for less than $9. The label is hard to miss – a glowing flamingo with the catchphrase “nice legs,” promising their wine to be just as good as the more expensive imported stuff.

The wine Natura, from Banfi Vintners in Chile, is a 100 percent organic product. Without sulfites, the butter-yellow Sauvignon Blanc loses the tinny flavor of some of its domestically produced counterparts. The organic legislation in the U.S. doesn’t require products to be 100 percent organic, while in Chile it does. For fewer than $10, this import is worth finding.

Full Story: Wine Around Town - The best the wine expo has to offer - Daily Free Press (subscription)

With former high-yielding but dull varieties like Airen and Aramon increasingly biting the dust, even the obscure nooks and crannies of the wine-making world are boosting their wine quality. In the place of the old workhorse grapes, internationally recognised superstars like Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc are muscling their way in, usually for the better.

There is,a drawback. The same small clique of grapes pandering to the same global tastes are tending to make mass-market wine increasingly samey.

The big wine fleshpots of the New World are particularly prone to this standardisation, which is why quirky local specialities that buck the trend without compromising quality, like Australia's Hunter Valley Semillon, are particularly worth cherishing.

Full Story: Wine: Finding quirky locals among the fleshpots - FT Adviser

Rated 3½ stars by a sighted wine guide, it was one of few fashionable cuvées in that publication not to rate four stars or higher. The home page of the producer notes “classical styled Bordeaux varietal blend. Pure and well defined, packed with blackcurrant and mulberry fruit and a hint of cocoa. Despite the wine’s power, it remains focused and pure. This wine could be described as the Beauty (39% Malbec) and the Beast (27% Petit Verdot) where elegance and power meets. The finish is refreshing with a great mineral and tobacco aftertaste.” A famous former smoker still addicted to Nicorette cigarette replacement gum, it was no doubt that tobacco aftertaste FW found satisfying.

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Full Story: FW orders 3.5 star Original - Times LIVE (blog)

The "diva" of all grape varieties, as New Zealand's second biggest wine export, pinot noir has become a sturdy pretender to the throne held by sauvignon blanc.

It is a big jump to the No1 spot, with the ubiquitous Kiwi "sav" responsible for 82 per cent of all wine exports last year, a total of 107 million litres.

Seven million litres of pinot noir was exported, a meagre 5.4 per cent of the total but still 2 million litres ahead of chardonnay in third place.

Full Story: Kiwi industry's dark starlet - Stuff.co.nz