A Winter's Tale

I should start by admitting that I am easily taken by a good marketing campaign when it comes to wine bottles. I'm bad about choosing a wine based on the looks of the label rather than its reputation. This has given me a variety of results- sometimes I'm rewarded for my love of color, flash, and clever title, and sometimes I am seriously punished for falling for a pretty face. A couple friends joined me with this bottle, they're not in the wine class but were happy to help with my "homework."

You'll have to forgive me for- but I'm watching a show right now called "Once Upon A Time," (it's on Netflix guys, and it's the good kind of cheesy) and it's a Sauv Blanc, which was recently a Grape of the Day in class, so I felt safe choosing it. Whoops.

Can you really blame me? The label's exactly like the show's opening credits!

 Name: Lost Slipper
Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Region: Mid-Atlantic
Country: United States
Year: 2011
Price: $8.99

What they say: "Smooth and delicate as a glass slipper, our Sauvignon Blanc will delight your palate and get your taste buds dancing with its fresh, bright flavors of sweet white peach, luscious nectarine, and lemon chiffon icing."
I haven't really figured out who to trust for reviews, but "We Speak Wine" says this wine is a "finely-crisp choice, good for palate and wallet."

What I say: Perhaps I'm just not into Sauvignon Blanc's yet, but I was not a huge fan of this one. The smell to me was very crisp and fruity, rather melon-y. There was certainly some huge acidic bite in the taste, though, which I'm just not a big fan of. I thought I tasted pear past the shock of the dry acid. I did like the after taste though, of a fruity-clean.

What my friends say: All three of them really enjoyed this one.They really like the drier whites, so it did not surprise me too much. They agreed with me about the pear flavor, and perhaps a little mineral as well, but none of us got that big tropical-fruit idea that we expected from a Sauv Blanc.