Coldstream Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2009

Bottle of Coldstream Hills
Sauvignon Blanc 2009

Coldstream Hills 

Sauvignon Blanc2009

Varietal:  Sauvignon Blanc

Yarra Valley, Australia

14.00 USD

Although a relatively smooth vintage, this harvest will be remembered as particularly challenging with devastating bush fires and drought.  Sourced from hand picked fruit grown in the cool Upper Yarra, this wine was fermented and stored on fine lees for three months.  Attractive characters of passion fruit are evident with freshly balanced acidity. (bottle label)

The bottle label on this wine is an interesting one.  It is really telling to me about the type of wine this will be.  The information about the growing season really let me understand why this wine was the way it was.  It was fairly dry and highly acidic, there was little sweet fruit present in either the nose or the palate.  It had many of the bread and cheese-like scents on the nose as well as the palate that helped to smooth out the wine a bit.  It made it a bit rounder.   Looking at the label it says it

is 13 % alcohol which was definitely present in the 

wine both on the nose and the at the tale end of the

taste.  What surprises me is that this white with its

bad growing season was able to get to 13 % alcohol.

Makes me wonder how much sugar they had to add

in to get it that way.