Hey , welcome . It's Domain Day . Cheapwinefindercom another podcast for a wine review . We wrote up on the CheapWineFindercom website , which we do three times a week , and today we've got an Aldi wine . It's either a $9 or $10 wine . It's the specially selected single estate marlboro , savion blanc 2023 . These , um , all these specially selected wines , have been out now for like 14 months or more , and what they were and there was , like I think it was in europe there's like 50 of them . We get maybe 12 or 13 in the united states , at least as far as my Aldi's did and what they were is wines from the great wine locations of the world , and here we have Marlboro .
Speaker 1It's a single estate , but I think it's the Lismore Wines . They have four or five of their own wine brands , but they do bulk wine and they do , like this , make wines for other people . Their own brands I hadn't heard of . I don't think that they're in the United States , at least they're not in my market out here . So , as an estate a single estate I think they're rather large and they have a lot of vineyards , so a single estate might not be that important estate . I think they're rather large and they have a lot of vineyards , so a single estate might not be that important and it's not usually that important with Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough , because it's a great place to grow Sauvignon Blanc grapes and their vineyards almost all thrive and you can find good grapes everywhere . So yeah , it's nice it's a single estate , but it don't have to be .
Speaker 1I'm gonna take a sip of this one . This is a . This is a more of a subdued um . I'll go talk about it after the sip . There's a note of grassiness to it which I kind of like is um , when it's spiky and big and bold and it's grassy , then it can get too much . But here it's just an interesting flavor that flows through and this is more smooth and slightly creamy . I'm not sure where that comes from . You can get a wine to be creamy by stirring the leaves , the dead yeast , from the fermentation . You usually don't pull them out until the very end .
Speaker 1The thinking is that everything in the wine adds to the flavor . So why would you remove flavor ? And if you stir them on a regular basis , the wine gets this creamy note to it . It kind of has that . It has sweet apple and melon and nectarine and tropical fruit . It just has nice flavors . But it's all kind of balanced and mellow . It's 12.5 on the alcohol , so it's an easy sipping wine . 12.5 means it probably came from very cool places coastal regions but since it's the South Island of New Zealand and Marlboro , everything is cool and coastal . So what else is there ? It's a nice sipping wine . What else do you want ? I mean it's not your typical or it's a different style from where it was there five years ago , but it's still good and it still has those flavors .
I mean it drinks really well .
Speaker 1I'm going to talk a little bit about something I learned from a New Zealand winemaker a while back , and when New Zealand wines first came on the scene , their Pinot Noir wines was every bit as or even more hot than the Sauvignon Blanc . Sauvignon Blanc was great , but they said that Pinot Noir wines were the best Pinot Noirs under $20 . And all of a sudden they started to fade away and I was asking what happened to it . He said well , sauvignon Blanc is so easy to grow and not that complicated to produce . It doesn't require a lot of aging and the world likes it . I mean you can sell it to pretty much any country in the world . And Pinot Noir those grapes are finicky and take a long time to grow and the production is complicated and you normally need oak barrel fermentation and that takes a while longer and only certain places are really hot on Pinot Noir . So it was like what are we doing , putting all this effort into that , when we're making money hands over fist with Sauvignon Blanc ? So I guess it was a wise decision . And there are Pinot Noirs from , and even value price Pinot Noirs from , new Zealand , but just not as many as there could have been .
Speaker 1So one more sip and we'll lock this thing up . Yeah , it's an easy to drink Sauvignon Blanc . It's not spiky , a little spicy . It's smooth . It's got really good flavor . It has low alcohol . So you can have a sip at work night and the next morning you're fine . This is the Aldi specially selected single estate Marlboro Sauvignon Blanc 2023 . I can't remember if I paid $9 for it or $10 , but either one's fine with me . It's well worth drinking . It's a good bottle of wine . So there you go , keep it cheap . It's starting to get warm around here . Well , not warm , it's not cold anymore and I think I've got . I finally broke down and got Trader Joe's Platinum Reserve Yonkville Cabernet Sauvignon . I was like , okay , I'm not buying this stuff , but I did . So . We'll be doing that in a couple of days and it's probably going to be pretty good . So , adios , keep it cheap and I'll be talking to everybody . So there you go , stay warm .