WTN: MerryEdwards SauvBlanc '09...(short/boring)

Tried this last night at our Valentine'sDinner for friends:
1. MerryEdwards SauvBlanc RRV (14.1%) 2009: Light gold color; lovely fragrant/floral/perfumed lightly herbal/cat pee/SB/spicy very light oak beautiful perfumed nose; very tart grapefruity/citric/Meyer lemon light herbal/SB quite perfumed/floral/spicy almost Riesling-like aromatic flavor; very long rather perfumed/floral/spicy/Meyer lemon/Buddha'sHand light herbal/cat pee/SB slight earthy/mineral finish; very nice touch of herbal/SB w/ amazingly perfumed aromatics.
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And a wee BloodyPulpit:
1. I've always been a bit reluctant to try this wine, scared off by the $40 price tag. When I proclaimed in a TN that the DryCreekVnyd SauvMusque was probably the greatest SauvBlanc in the world (classic TomHill stirring the pot); a friend gifted me this btl and admonished me to reconsider. So we cracked it last night. Point made.
The DCV SauvMusque is 100% and has lovely aromatics. This MerryEdwards rendition of SauvBlanc has a fair chunk of SauvMusque in it. The aromatics in her version is classic SauvMusque and almost the level of a good Riesling. Wonderful SauvBlanc....probably the world's greatest.
Tom

This MerryEdwards rendition of SauvBlanc has a fair chunk of SauvMusque in it. The aromatics in her version is classic SauvMusque and almost the level of a good Riesling. Wonderful SauvBlanc....probably the world's greatest.

Tom,
We've been following Merry Edwards from the... well, a long time, since she was making wine for Matanzas Creek back in the '80s. It was her SB back then that first got us interested in the variety and out of our Chardonnay-induced stupor. That Sauv. Musque character to her wines then and now does provide quite different aromatics to the wine. Like you, though, the price tag is a definite disincentive to our buying much of it these days. Maybe we impoverished scientific types aren't the target audience? I'd have a hard time kicking the Cotat cousins and Vatan to the curb for her SB, but they are very well-made and interesting wines. Did you get a bit of RS in that wine? I usually do with them.

Mark Lipton

I was lucky enough to be able to taste an aged version of this wine (a 2001, I believe). It was unique and beautiful, with lovely caramelly notes and delicious body and structure....but still great acidity.

Tom,
We've been following Merry Edwards from the... well, a long time, since she was making wine for Matanzas Creek back in the '80s. It was her SB back then that first got us interested in the variety and out of our Chardonnay-induced stupor. That Sauv. Musque character to her wines then and now does provide quite different aromatics to the wine. Like you, though, the price tag is a definite disincentive to our buying much of it these days. Maybe we impoverished scientific types aren't the target audience? I'd have a hard time kicking the Cotat cousins and Vatan to the curb for her SB, but they are very well-made and interesting wines. Did you get a bit of RS in that wine? I usually do with them.
Mark Lipton

Mark,
Didn't pick up any obvious RS in the wine. It had an uncutuious/lush character that perhaps it does...but down around the 0.5% level perhaps.
Certainly not the steely/mineral character of Cotat or Vatan.
Tom

Depending on the vintage there can be RS in Cotat. I think that's why they didn't always get the AOC.