WTN: Blanc Party

[David M. Bueker]

• 2021 Bedrock Wine Co. Sauvignon Blanc - USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Valley (4/27/2022)
  SB skeptic alert. I keep trying. This one is not so bad. It has some Riesling-esque qualities, and no unpleasant grassy notes. Citrus dominated, it does fan out a bit on the finish, with clean hay and some brothy depth. I could drink this.

"not bad" and "I could drink this"
Wow, finally David is totally in love with a SB.

[David M. Bueker]

Very German level compliments..."this is not so bad" is high praise!

My complaint about most US sauvignon blanc wines is that they're not Great Pumpkin pleasers--they're not Sancerre enough.

Many of the sauvignon blancs I've had fall at one or the other of the SB extremes. One is underripe fruit, to which Jancis Robinson's tasting note "cat's pee on a gooseberry bush" applies. The other is overripe fruit, which produces a wine that tastes flat and smells like a Biology lab hay infusion. Most SBs deserve a tasting note from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "mostly harmless." SB blends well with semillon, though--witness white Bordeaux.

-Paul W.

[David M. Bueker]

I have a Bedrock Semillion/SB blend coming up soon.

This SB was neither of the extremes you cite. If I was an actual SB fan, I would probably proclaim it as very good.

Other than Vatan, I pretty much despise all Sancerre.