Advantages: Crisp, dry, light and white Disadvantages: None if you're a sucker for a good dry white
I may have been working hard and ignoring CIAO for the past few days or so but I can't say that my consumption of wine has declined dramatically. A bit unfortunate that but not really in the least surprising.
When it comes to wine, I've always been a b ...
Advantages: Excellent wine for good price Disadvantages: addictive!
Being a kiwi it is natural that I drink plenty of New Zealand wine and indeed I do, too much perhaps! This wine comes from the Malborough region of New Zealand, which lies at the top of the South Island at a lattitude equivalent to about mid Spain. It is ...
Advantages: Widely available, good value for money, very moreish Disadvantages: Relatively simple in terms of flavour and aroma, almost too easy to down !
Montana Sauvignon Blanc is a very widely available example of the white wine style that put New Zealand wine on the world map. Originating from the Marlborough region of the South Island of New Zealand it has pungent tropical fruit and gooseberry characte ...
Advantages: Fresh, crisp, quaffable Disadvantages: It's going fast
Montana Marlborough New Zealand
2005
100% Sauvignon Blanc Montana has a good reputation for producing high quality New Zealand wines, and New Zealand has earned itself a reputation for excellent wine production.
The 2005 was released in Augus ...
Advantages: Comes alive on the palate and smells like cut grass, lovely stuff! Disadvantages: A tad more expensive than your average Pinot.
New Zealand Sauvignon is amazing stuff on the whole. A wine merchant once described it as 'biting into a Granny Smith apple' and that, 10 years later is my description until this very day. This is a great introduction to New Zealand's signature grape an ...
