Light Whites

I wanted to share my favorite new Sauvignon Blanc with the community. I was lucky enough to try it through work, but I definitely plan to keep buying it, especially as the weather gets warmer. Brancott Estate, from New Zealand, just came out with a new line of wines, called Flight Song, that are 20% lighter in calories but I think they taste just as good as, if not better than other wines of their variety. The Sauvignon Blanc is my favorite, and will probably become my summer go-to, but the Pinot Grigio is also great if that is what you prefer.

I don't think the wines are widely available yet, though I was able to find them on some online retailers (like Snooth). I think they will be easier to find in the next few months though, just in time for summer!

I hope you get to try them soon and enjoy them as much as I have!

I am always looking for good light white wines, particularly Sauvignon Blanc, so any suggestions from the group would definitely be appreciated as well.

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AnnaMag
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Anna,

Reminds me of the old Miller Lite "Great Taste/Less Filling" advertising campaign! I will keep an eye out for these.

Jack

Reply to
cruciverbalist

The NZ Seifried Nelson Riesling 2012 that I mentioned a little while ago has some Sauvignon Blanc cousins. They are a little expensive but maybe I'll try a bottle even if Balducci's wants more than $20 a bottle.

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James Silverton

Do they go well with spam? Graham

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graham

Graham, I believe that your suspicion may be misplaced. The wines in question are marketed by Montana, the largest wine conglomerate in New Zealand. The post was made by an sbcglobal broadband customer in Irvine, California. It's possible that this is some US advertising agency hired by Montana made this post, but Occam's razor argues against that possibility.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

This is a great rejoinder.

Mark, while it is certainly not certain, the message in question had the look-feel of a typical promotional blurb. Usually in such cases it advertises the seller, and indeed there was one online retailer mentioned in the post. If any, the sponsor of the message would be that retailer.

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Patok

"Mark Lipton" wrote in .............

To expand upon Professor Lipton's summation as above (and in view of the fact that it is a few months since he blessed us with his presence on these shores), Montana Wines changed its name to Brancott Estate a while ago.

For many years, Montana's wines were marketed in the USA under the Brancott label (insisted by US authorities to eliminate any possible confusion with the US state).

So now, the Montana name now no longer exists - even in NZ.

Brancott Esate is wholly owned by Pernod Ricard NZ (part of the world wide conglomerate).

This gives weight to Mark's assertion that the post of AnnaMag had nothing to do with Pernod Ricard USA (they list Brancott Estate as one of the brands they distribute in the USA).

Since the OP posted via FoodBanter, perhaps she may just have been genuinely enthusiastic about her discovery - and of course, pigs may fly :)

But under no circumstances would I place any blame on the producer or distributor.

st.helier

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st.helier

There are marketing firms that pay/reward individuals for doing marketing via social networks under the guise of ordinary consumers.

Perhaps one such individual stumbled across usenet. I suspect it has happened before.

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Doug Anderson

Mark: The post to my mind, just reeked of commercial advertising rather than being a post from a normal wine lover. I would normally have ignored it but I was in a bad mood after tasting some clarets that were over the hill and shouldn't have been (more of which later). Graham

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graham

When AnnaMag last posted, it was on the latest big trend of "wine blends" and she listed 3 examples. She wrote work "I am a wine-lover who decided to work in the wine industry, on behalf of numerous wineries".

Sounds like she is doing her job to me.

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Steve Slatcher

There has been a recent trend involving smelling and even tasting soil in order to help understand the origins of the produce of the land. Now Nez du Vin is commercialising the idea.

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Steve Slatcher

There has been a recent trend involving smelling and even tasting soil in order to help understand the origins of the produce of the land. Now Nez du Vin is commercialising the idea.

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Steve Slatcher

Oops. Meant to start a new thread. The perils of posting too early in the morning ;)

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Steve Slatcher

This would seem to be predicated on the assumption that soils impart their flavors to wine in some sort of direct fashion. I think that most of us agree that this sounds improbable.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

In my family tradition, April Fool jokes must end by 12 noon or else it's "More fool you!"

Reply to
James Silverton

Ah, hoist on me own petard. Good catch!

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

In mine too. But Mark seemed to have recorded my top post here as

1.30am in his time. Tradition does not account very well for the Internet and multiple time zones, but I was at least careful to post when at least some of America was actually in April.

Having said that, and to pick up on Mark's point, I believe the videos on my blog were deadly serious, and they seemed to be implying that the soils had flavours reflected in the produce of the land.

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Steve Slatcher

"Steve Slatcher" wrote

Steve, I spent my first 12 years a small dairy farm in Northland NZ.

Our farm had quite a few different soil type - from heavy clay; peat; volcanic loam to loam over limestone)

Now, I was not a great consumer of soil or grass myself, however, if the "conduct" of our dairy cows is any guide, we saw on a daily basis, that when we introduced the animals to a field where there were a mixture of soil types, they would often make a bee-line to those areas where "the grass was sweeter".

All these years later (and my father has long departed - as he would have told me) I do not know which soil types grew the most preferred pasture, but I am in no doubt that various soils certainly do reflect in the produce.

To the degree this is reflected in grapes, I find a fascinating subject.

st.helier

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st.helier

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