Umbrele Sauvignon Blanc 2011 from Romania
This wine from Romania is the first Sauvignon Blanc from here that I
have tasted, and at the price (£5.99) I can only say that it is good value. A
spritzy start where the acidity is quite high so the wine fruitiness was fresh
and zesty, the alcohol was a little higher than expected but felt only a little
warm and quite well integrated. The aromas of the wine lay in the area of pear
drops and galia melon, and these followed through to the taste, but in addition
banana flavours and a very sweet start which had reminiscencse of boiled
sweets, led to a pear drop finish which was short. The wine is produced
at the Cramele Recas and uses state of the art technology to produce wines (the
winery has been fully fitted out with stainless steel , automatic temperature
controlled tanks for fermenting and storing the wine, best possible equipment
for crushing, destemming, pressing the
grapes etc ) and in the last 10 years, both the vineyard and winery have been
completely, and exhaustively modernised in order to be able to fully control
the production process using the latest methods, this means alot of the vines
that are grown are under 10 years old with over 600 hectares have been
re-planted already using the vine stock from France and Italy. The winemakers
are Hartley Smithers from Australia, and Nora Iriate from Spain
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