Rather than serve us the same old, same old warmed up selection, The Independent Ten Best Summer White Wines offers a diverse lot.
Is it true that Loire Valley wines are more popular with the Brits than here in the US?
Their selection of the Champteloup Sauvignon Blanc 2007 might be the proof in the pudding.
The Chamteloup also made Victoria Moore's list of Good-value rivals to Sancerre (Guardian, June 2008).
Yet after reading Victoria's list, I would tend to look for the Domaine des Trois Demoiselles Sauvignon 2006, Touraine, France.
Her description is mouth watering:
sauvignon, but also something else: breadth and, a few seconds after
you put it in your mouth, a second flush of flavours, like another
instrument coming in on a piece of music, which gives it a gravity you
wouldn't expect in something as simple as a sauvignon blanc."
Poetry in Motion
Getting back to The Independent selection and staying with Loire flavors, the Bernard Series Old Vine Chenin Blanc 2007 from Bellingham (South Africa) is one I will have to try as Chenin Blanc besides Viognier must be one of my favorite warm weather whites.
I don't know what to make of the football flavored review of the same wine by Confessions of a Wino (June 29, 2009) who tells us "imagine peaches and cream but with some grapefruit slices added. Not
quite right but still quite nice. A bit like a pig on a tennis court."
Never mind that it left me scratching my head, I borrowed Confessions snapshot of the Bernards Chenin Blanc label…
Check the rest of this Ten Best Summer White Wines and as all of this is pretty subjective, do you agree?
Sante!
Ahhh, now that was because at the time of writing the British press was in uproar over female tennis players grunting at Wimbledon.
It’s just not cricket, old chap!
Which, coincidentally why I had to include some football commentary in the post.
Hope that clears things up?
Alastair
Ahhh, now that was because at the time of writing the British press was in uproar over female tennis players grunting at Wimbledon.
It’s just not cricket, old chap!
Which, coincidentally why I had to include some football commentary in the post.
Hope that clears things up?
Alastair
Now I know the answer, thanks to Confessions of a Wino, it’s all about grunting.
Are there wines that make you grunt by the way?
Now I know the answer, thanks to Confessions of a Wino, it’s all about grunting.
Are there wines that make you grunt by the way?