NO Sauvignon Blanc
Now, I definitely don’t mean I don’t want to drink any Sauvignon Blanc; it’s usually one of my favorite whites. The name of the wine I drank the other night was the 2004 NO Sauvignon Blanc. The fruit came from Lake County and the NO Vineyards and Winery reside in Healdsburg, according to the label, but in my brief time online, I couldn’t find a website. I bought this bottle a few months ago at K & L for $6.99 and wasn’t sure if it would be any good. But the back label sounded right up my alley: ” NO oak aging. NO cork. NO malolactic fermentation. NO attitude. NO kidding.” Just how I like SB.
This one I had with my trusty salad of crabmeat, grapefruit, and goat cheese (no avocado, sadly). The wine itself seemed to have the smell of too much sulfur at first, but once that blew off, I found grapefruit, grass, and a touch of cat pee. On the palate, there was more grapefruit, along with lemon and pineapple. Not my favorite Sauvignon Blanc ever, nor my second or third. But for the price and the pairing, it got the job done. Though I haven’t seen any other NO wines around, so I’m not sure how easy it is to find.
2004 NO Sauvignon Blanc, Lake County





May 27th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Cat pee? I don’t know if I would be able to drink a wine that made me think of urine… I might just have to say NO to it! Ok, bad word play.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Lisa,
I understand, especially since I have a tempermental calico who left me a present last week…