SB just doesn’t excite me. It’s okay, but as a varietal, it is limited for my taste.

QOTD: I really haven’t had anything bad lately. I was disappointed in the Ghost Pines Cab Sauv this weekend – extremely meh.

QOTD: It’s been a couple of months gone by now but I’m still devastated by a 2007 Georg Breuer “Berg Schlossberg”. 57 euros down the toilet. I know it was too young, but still it should have at least put up a fight! I want my money back Mr. Breuer!!

QOTD: A bottle of “Kermit Lynch Selected” Cotes du Rhones (no producer…some sort of KL negociant play?). It was bland, boring and uninteresting.

QOTD. Last week I had a La Tour Carnet 2005. My wife collected it from the wine cellar whiteout saying which wine it was. I was very disappointed because the first time i drank it – 10 months ago – it was very tannic, well structured, solid and structured. But now it was bland and just like over the top, which is quite impossible. I hope it was a wrong bottle because I still have some bottles left.

I am a huge Sauvignon Blanc fan but something I never do is drink one that has been in the bottle more than a year, In my experience this varietal starts to lose its qualities within six months and rarely lasts into a second year. I have had some single vinyard New Zealand examples that buck this trend…… So Gary It seemed totally unfair to judge 2 07 examples against an 09, what a surprise that the 09 showed best. It is worth remembering that 09 from the southern hemisphere has been in bottle for nearly 18 months already as it is bottled early in the year. One thing I can almost guarantee is that the 91 points given to that 07 example was tasted in 08….. can you confirm ????

Please no more sauvignon blanc shows for at least a year.

90/100

lines of the day – ‘For your generation (to Mott) I dream of Genie’ and ‘did K-Murph sneak a bottle of water in there?’

Punchy, funny, enjoyable episode…love it when GV crucifies a wine as he does here!