PS and the cull report?


On Jan 29, 4:40�pm, Mark Lipton > wrote:
> On Saturday, we had a number of our friends over for our annual "cellar
> clearance" (cull) party. *Since some of our friends can't or won't drink
> red wine, and since we rarely find ourselves with white wines in the
> cellar that we want to dispose of, we ended up using the occasion to
> sample some NZ SBs from the most recent vintage:
>
> 2006 Babich Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
> nose: intense notes of tropical fruit and gooseberry
> palate: a reprise of the nose, with a slightly herbal quality added in
>
> 2006 Villa Maria Private Bin Sauvignon Blanc
> n: gooseberries and minerals
> p: somewhat dilute after the Babich; grapefruit
>
> 2006 Matua Valley Sauvignon Blanc
> n: muted, grapefruit and grass
> p: more dilute than the Babich or Kim Crawford, mostly grapefruit
>
> 2006 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc
> n: powerful, tropical fruit, grapefruit
> p: grapefruit and gooseberry, grass
>
> I've had a number of previous years of the Babich, including an '01
> tasted at the winery. None of them have come close to what I got from
> the '06. Only the Kim Crawford came close, but of the two I'd say the
> Babich had a bit more refinement to it.
>
> Mark Lipton