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Now mature, this wine balances crisp citrus with warm apricot flavors. It is smooth and intense, with a texture that...
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Having tasted the white Generation XIX a year ago before it headed for the bottling line, its pedigree continues to...
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From dense white-chalk soil, this wine lies at the heart of this producer's range. It is a generous, full-bodied wine...
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The 2021 Sancerre La Moussiere was tasted as a finished wine still in tank and offers attractive purity and balance....
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Mellot's 2018 Pouilly-Fumé opens with an intense and aromatic, clear and elegant bouquet of ripe pears and...
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Sauvignon Blanc is the white wine from the Eisele Vineyard. The parcels are located on the Eastern side of the...
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This has a refined, citrus edge with such focused and compact lemons and limes, as well as some green mangoes. Long,...
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A creamy and layered white with sliced lemon, melon and white peach on the nose and palate. It’s medium-to...
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The color is pale ruby with light tints of garnet. The nose is fine, ethereal, floral, intense, spicy, delicate with...
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A mouthwatering white, with vivacious acidity buoying flavors of pineapple, pink grapefruit granita and hints of...
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The 2020 Sauvignon Blanc Bailhache is a very pretty wine that balances mid-palate creaminess with a good bit of...
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Mencia Sauvignon Blanc Sherry Pre-Arrival

The green skinned grapes of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal had their origins in Southern France, where they are still widely grown and used for many of the excellent young and aged white wines the region is famous for. Today, however, they are grown in almost every wine producing country in the world, and are widely revered for their fresh and grassy flavors, full of tropical notes and refreshing, zesty character. Sauvignon Blanc grapes thrive best in moderate climates, and ripen relatively early in the year. This has made them a favorite for many wineries in the New World, where they can still produce healthy and high yields in the earlier part of the summer before the temperatures become too hot. Too much heat has a massively adverse effect on Sauvignon Blanc, as the grapes become dull in their flavor, and the wine produced from them loses all its unique character and high points. As such, Sauvignon Blanc farmers have had a lot of trouble from global warming and climate change, as they are being forced to harvest their crops increasingly earlier in the year when it is cool enough to do so.

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.