My dear wine amateurs, Cyan is here again on Wednesday for our agreed weekly wine tasting. Today's wine is a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc vintaged in 2012 again from California. This dry white with 12.8% alcohol content has a romantic name, Moon Crest. It is bottled in the vineyard by the winery, Jenna, San Martin. CA.
FYI, I just finished my California inventory. Next week, I will taste wine form other production regions, probably from the old world, the European countries. So, stay tuned!
In general, I do not dislike this wine. It's simply sweet and straightforward just like a little girl who is cute, innocent, yet quiet, silently smiling at you...
Sight
This wine is incredibly transparent and clear. If you place an item next to the wine body, you can see through it almost like seeing through water. It has a nice color, which I would call light olivine. It's just like the color of pure and fresh made apple juice made of fresh green apples.
Smell
The first smell, I was delighted by its intense and straightforward fragrance of the ripest and sweetest yellow- and white- colored fruits such as golden apple, peach, and apricot, right after which followed with the sweetest vanilla cream. However, the sad thing is it lost me after a little while... This short-living flaw is such a shame given its amazingly rich and sweet aroma.
Wondering if I could smell something different in the second attempt, I shake the glass. However, not springily, it gives out a quiet consistent smell invoking the flavors of ripe, sweet light-colored fruits and vanilla. But as I smelled harder, a fragile and insignificant stream of leaf tobacco emerged above the greasy sweetness (no negative connotation here). And, yea, that's about it. Ripest Sweetness.
Taste
Just like how it smelled, it tastes sweet, like drinking a alcohol-strenghthen juice made of the ripest honey crispy apple/peach/green grape.
Some key words I would use to describe this wine:
- Lower medium wine body
- Pure and sweet fruit
- Good acidity
- Short and weak aftertaste
This wine would be much better if it is characterized with rubbery tannins and more powerful aftertaste. In one word, it's a sweet and simple wine. You can enjoy it directly without pairing with food. It's a good and easy choice for you if you are a light drinker and prefer mild wine over sophisticated ones. One more thing, I also think it is on the downhill and should be enjoyed right now without holding up.
That's it for today. Until next Wednesday.
Cheers,
Cyan
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