2012 Marylebone Cricket Club, Chilean Sauvignon Blanc, Casablanca Valley

2012 Marylebone Cricket Club, Chilean Sauvignon Blanc, Casablanca Valley

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2012 Marylebone Cricket Club, Chilean Sauvignon Blanc, Casablanca Valley

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The vineyards of Quintay are situated in the premium cool climate region of the Casablanca Valley. Boasting wonderfully fresh aromatics and a ripe, tropical fruit personality, extra lees ageing has added a subtle weight to the wine, making it not only perfect as an aperitif, but also a great match to a variety of fish, vegetable and goat's cheese dishes.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

Berry Bros. & Rudd have specially selected a range of wines for the MCC to enjoy over the coming season. We can trace our origins back to 1698 when the Widow Bourne founded her shop opposite St James’s Palace and today the present generation of Berrys and Rudds continue to manage our family-owned wine merchant from the same premises at 3 St James’s Street, London.

The MCC range includes a marvellous Pinot Noir from Domaine de Coudulet in Southern France, a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc from the premium region of Casablanca Valley, a Picpoul de Pinet from the Languedoc in France that is a heavenly match for sea food, a fine 100% Chardonnay from Burgundy, a classical Rioja which is sublime with robust hearty dishes and an Australian Shiraz from one of the great estates in Barossa, Elderton.

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Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc

An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp  Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves.

It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.

In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today many producers are rivalling Cloudy Bay in terms of quality and Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand`s trademark grape.

It is now grown very successfully in Chile producing wines that are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character. After several false starts, many South African producers are now producing very good quality, rounded fruit-driven Sauvignon Blancs.

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