Patricia Green Cellars - Sauvignon Blanc 2025 (750ml) Cremant de Bourgone

Patricia Green Cellars - Sauvignon Blanc 2025 (750ml) Cremant de BourgoneThis is classic Sauvignon Blanc provided you do not think this variety should smell like cut grass and cat pee. This has high toned and heavily fruited aromatics with a distinct limey citrus tinge along with the hint of straw and minerals which is what ripe Sauvignon Blanc should have as its varietal typicity. The strength of the aromatics resounds in the glass as the wine is deeply fruited with citrus notes at the entry giving way to tropical fruit

Long & fresh finish

But Sansonina is also the only vineyard in the area to have old Merlot vines

With a light amber color and fine bubbles

including Fouchères (next to premier cru Borniques below Musigny)

The finish is generous

The grapes are fermented for 8 days at low temperatures and then foot-trodden in open granite lagares

The same notes repeat on the creamy palate

confirming that they are wines that will require patience: interestingly

restrained tannins

offering additional layers and a delicate mineral tension that ends with a crisp

5 acres in another new site

A 100% tempranillo like many of those wines that have written the history of DO Rioja