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Montana Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2008

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Producer:
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Montana
Country:
New Zealand (Нова Зеландия) 
Vintage:
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2008
Variety:
Sauvignon Blanc (Совиньон Блан)
€ 9.71  
Added by demiro
14 Apr 2009

Winemaker's notes:
The wine is light straw in colour with green highlights. Aromas of ripe capsicum, gooseberry and grapefruit dominate with tropical fruit notes apparent. This wine displays full fruit intensity. The ripe capsicum flavours meld well with the gooseberry and supporting mango and passionfruit flavours. A well-balanced wine showing the lively, crisp acidity associated with this style.

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Food: Antipasto, Asparagus, Carpaccio (Tuna), Chicken Salad, Cold Meats, Crab, Curry (Fish or Chicken), Lobster, Mussels, Nuts, Olives, Oysters (Raw), Pasta Salad, Pasta with Shellfish, Pasta with Vegetables, Red Snapper, Salmon, Sashimi, Scallops, Shrimp, Smoked Fish (Trout, Herring), Sushi, Swordfish, Thai, Tuna
Cheese: Blue Castello, Goat Cheese, Gruyere, Sharp Cheddar
Temperature: 12 °C
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Let's say a grape variety normally takes 120 days to ripen. In an especially hot year, it may ripen after only 110 days; in a cooler year, after 130 days. Viticulturists generally do want a long growing seasons. Long ripening allows components in the grape other that sugar - tannins, for example - ...
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