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20 Oct 2011 by Richard Hemming
Richard Hemming with a terrible pun and a foretaste of my collection of tasting notes on some very superior South African wines - including at least one stunning Sauvignon Blanc - JR ....
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12 Aug 2011 by Tamlyn Currin
From ZAR150, €19.95, £16.35
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When Wines of South Africa chose the message of biodiversity to persuade the world to drink their wines, I was bemused. Without doubt,...
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26 May 2011 by Jancis Robinson
I find myself more excited about the range of wines being made around the world from Sauvignon Blanc grapes than I ever have before. There was a time not that long ago when we seemed to have...
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27 Oct 2009 by Julia Harding MW
From £12.99, US$18, NZ$22, AU$22
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'I am afraid that much of the UK wine trade appears to have written off the whole of New Zealand's 2008 Sauvignon Blanc...
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25 Sep 2009 by Julia Harding MW
3 Jun 2011: Monty Waldin gives us an indepth technical profile on Greywacke.
Kevin Judd, for more than 20 years the winemaker at Cloudy Bay, one of the most successful producers and...
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22 Sep 2009 by Jancis Robinson
From £5.99/£7.99
Find Casa Marin, Cipreses Sauvignon Blanc 2008
I went to the annual Chilean tasting in London a couple of weeks ago and was struck forcefully by...
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22 Jul 2009 by Julia Harding MW
Choosing 12 wines to represent a fine-wine expression of Cabernet Sauvignon (including Cabernet-dominated blends) in Australia was a very tall order but Robert Mann, former winemaker at Hardy's...
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15 Jul 2009 by Julia Harding MW
This session on day 3 of the Landmark Tutorial week was led by Iain Riggs of Brokenwood, who highlighted the worldwide increase in Sauvignon Blanc plantings compared with those of Semillon. He...
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30 Jun 2009 by Jancis Robinson
From £3.79, $14.99 and €12.52
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In hot, humid weather, what could be more agreeable than a really sleek, racy, cool, refreshing Sauvignon Blanc with lots of...
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22 May 2009 by Julia Harding MW
After 30 years of captivating consumers with distinctive flavours ranging from gooseberry to nettles via passionfruit, cat’s pee, asparagus, citrus and capsicum, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc...
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11 Mar 2009 by Sarah Ahmed
If Menetou Salon, Quincy and Reuilly are the poor relations of Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé, spare a thought for the Loire vignerons producing Sauvignon Blanc outside these famous Central Vineyard...
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24 Feb 2009 by Julia Harding MW
While Tamlyn Currin mined the recent London Australia Day tasting for bargains , I continued my Sauvignon Blanc mission, motivated partly by the news that Sauvignon Blanc now outsells Chardonnay...
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5 Jan 2009 by Julia Harding MW
Here's something brisk for the new year - an in-depth look at last year's crop of NZ Sauvignons. Tasting a large number of varietal wines from the same country and the same vintage is always...
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6 Oct 2008 by Julia Harding MW
A tasting in London of a selection of Saint Clair’s Pioneer Block Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir with winemaker Matt Thomson (International Wine Challenge white winemaker of the year 2008,...
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3 Sep 2008 by JR
Sauvignon Blanc is a strange grape. It evokes strong reactions. Those who love it, love it with a passion. Those who find its flavours less than subtle, tend to be less than subtle in their...
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