TN Mantanzas Creek Winery Sonoma County Sauvignon Blanc 1991

I could not find this single bottle of Mantanzas Creek Winery Sonoma County Sauvignon Blanc 1991 for many years, but it finally surfaced. I did not expect it to be very good and had another wine ready to open, but it was not needed. The wine has now softened and has developed a sort of waxy character that a few Sauvignon Blancs develop with age. There was no oxidation, which can be very nasty tasting to me in Sauvignon Blanc from just about anywhere. This wine has aged somewhat like one of the few better white Bordeauxs that will age well. It is not an especially fine wine, but it still is quite drinkable.

I likely will be reporting on some fairly inexpensive, unusual (for me) wines in the next few months - all of which I have never had. They are supposed to arrive tomorrow. They include a Sula Chenin Blanc from India, a Rkatsateli from Dr. Frank in New York, a red from Greece, and a red from Sardenia. Austrian wines will be a Zierfandler, a Zweigelt, and a Kremser GV. The real freak of the lot is a half-bottle of Josef Hofer Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur of the Alps.

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It sounds like an interesting collection of wines (and of course that Pine Liqueur). We drank quite a few of those Matanzas Creek Sauvignon Blancs back in the '80s, when Merry Edwards was making their wine (their Merlot was also quite decent). I know what you mean about the oxidized character of aged SB: the "iodine" or seaweed notes that often creep in to older SB I find somewhat interesting in small quanitities, but to Jean they are anathema. Merry Edwards is still making interesting SB, now under her own name at her eponymous winery. I still don't think that I'd age them, but they are tasty enough now.

Mark Lipton

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