Welcome again. It's Domain Dave from CheepWineFindercom, and today we have another wine that we wrote up on the CheepWineFindercom website, so you can see the written review there, and this is the companion podcast. We talk about it a little bit more And do another tasting too at the same time, and this is a 799 wine from Trader Joe's. It's the Picton Bay Marble Sauvignon Blanc 2022. I think Trader Joe's has the exclusive rights in areas where they have stores and if not, the price is more likely to be around $12.99, $13.14. So if 799 is too cheap for a wine, you won't go that low. You can always pay more for the wine, and what we have here is a wine that's actually from a winery.
Speaker 1:Picton Bay is a brand from Mount Riley. It's a family owned winery. It's small. Well, no, it's not. If you go to the website and click on the because we have links click on the mount. They have a really beautiful, nice, huge winery and there is a Mount Riley in the right in the background. It's kind of a nice. You know, i wasn't expecting anything But and actually having Trader Joe's or Aldi do one of your wines, it's a great thing for them because they pay up front and they get money.
Speaker 1:And I mean that year. You know that year that Picton Bay's been a Trader Joe's for a couple of years. You pretty much made your money that year because they're going to do well And I think this even might be in a state wine, because they don't actually say it's in the state wine, but it might be because they make wines from their own grapes. You know this could be a special wine under the Picton Bay where they bought some, you know, other grapes, some other vineyards in Marlboro. I mean this it could be and that that that would, you know, show how it did get to be a lower price. But maybe not too. And you know I was writing the review and I was like hard to write a review, because what can you say about a, a young? this is a young Sauvignon Blanc. Young. By young I mean it's not made to be aged. You should buy it in the first two years probably, and probably the first year release. It's not meant to be aged. It's bright and alive, new, and it's gonna rather than improve with age. It's gonna be less bright and alive as it goes along. And they do that by making the wine fairly quickly. Stainless steel vats They really don't get into a lot of detail about the little nuances, because they usually basically just sell marble, just sell New Zealand, because 85% of all the wines exported out of New Zealand come from Marlboro. So if you know New Zealand wine, you pretty much know wines from Marlboro. So this is a young wine stainless steel, not a lot of aging. It's a 2022, you know the New Zealand and United States their winter summers are reversed, so it's not that old wine And it's really good. And I'm gonna take a sip.
Speaker 1:["safiyan Black"]. First of all, you can smell the aromas like a foot away from the glass. They just jump out. I mean, they're in that glass. This is one of the great things about Saviyan Black. Before you even get to it, you're in a good mood because the smell is so good. It's like a garden. I mean it's like you're going to the greatest vegetable market in the world. So it's got that going on. And then the taste is just this seamless, well-balanced mix of peaches and pears and tropical fruits and maybe a little bit of honey and a touch of spice here and there, and it's the city is really well-balanced. The value-priced Saviyan Black can get a little spiky, especially from down New Zealand Not so much. I don't get the spikiness from the United States Saviyan Black, but New Zealand can be, and this one doesn't have that at all. I mean the acidity is done well, it's just right.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna take another sip because it's just one of those sip and wines It's really nice. I mean I guess you could you know fancy salads and shrimp and you know whitefish, that type of thing would be fine with this. But this is summertime, put it in a bucket with some ice and just sip it from all afternoon long, basically, and take another sip. The alcohol content's 12.5, so it's not even a heavy wine at all. But it's got a good medium mouthfeel. It'll gauge your palate And there's just lots of flavors. City's really well-balanced. It's got good length. You're tasting this for some time after the last sip And, like I said, i mean there's not much to say about a New Zealand Young New Zealand Saviyan Black, except they're really good And for $7.99, you know you can pay more for an affordable New Zealand Saviyan Black, but I don't know if you're gonna be able to get better because this is first rate.
Speaker 1:I mean I don't have any complaints about it at all. I mean it does taste good, price is more than right. Let's take one last sip and it'll tie this up. There's not much more to say than yeah, it's good. You know, saviyan Black grape isn't always a young wine. In Bordeaux, where it's Bordeaux Black, there are wines that they put away for 25 years. They're some of the longest aged wines there is. So it's just the style from New Zealand. But it's good, it's inexpensive and it's that Trader Joe. So there he goes. This is Domain Dave from cheapwinefightercom. Like us, we like your podcast. Push buttons if you will Keep it cheap. Stay safe. Fourth of July is coming up. Don't blow your fingers off. I think I said that last time and adios, i'll be talking to you. Bye, bye.