***The Official Wine Thread***

[flomo]

Any other NZ SBs to try other than cloudy bay?
And hopefully that are available in North America.

[daven]

Any other NZ SBs to try other than cloudy bay?
And hopefully that are available in North America.

I was standing in front of a wine shelf this evening on my way to a drinking and thought about this thread. Anyway, we drank the 2011 Tohu sav blanc reserve (NZ$11) this evening. It was fine, nothing amazing, but just fine.
Other sav blancs in the line-up i was looking at that i would recommend = stoneleigh, mudhouse, church rd, ngatawara (some), st clair (usually good, but occasionally marginal), cloudy bay

there are two places i generally buy sav blanc from - the above list covers the decent that i'm familiar with at one (plus, some waiparas are good). There are several that are expensive there that i'm not confident about. I'll post a correspondins line-up next time i'm at the other place i buy wine from. I don't know which of those export in quantity, sorry. FWIW, Kim Crawford selection or whatever it's called was the third cheapest option out of around 40.

generally i buy those that i listed above whenever they drop to around the US$12 a bottle mark. Much cheaper and i buy a case. Let me know if you buy any and they disappoint, i'm sure you have paypal or whatever.

[Eric]

I usually drink red wine by the glass, not by the bottle.

Cab Sauvignon seems to be a safe choice for me. I also like Pinot Noir but they say it is harder to get the grapes right for it.