20 February 2021
It’s Saturday and I’m watching Spaceballs. I nipped into Lidl for some sorely need meat, and ended up buying this South African Sauvignon Blanc, which I think I may have already written about. I could easily find out, but it’s more fun to move forward. Moreover, I think I have finally found a Savvy that I could not possibly blind taste as such. Well, maybe a bit, but it’s dirt cheap enough that it actually tastes like white wine. Typically, when I’m blind tasting and it tastes like white wine, it’s Italian. They do that fairly well. Apparently this is called Rosecreek, and it is from the Western Cape. The nose and the palate both have a chalkiness, that would normally send me to the Loire. There’s actually nothing wrong with this wine. It’s not hot, it isn’t watery, it has a bit of body in the mid-palate, the acid is ample, and peaches tend to dominate the simplicity. I actually bought this so I could hate on it, but I can’t. It’s 2017, oh and I see it was bottled in Germany, which makes perfect sense. Now I remember. Now I wonder what I wrote before….
“I don’t love it, and I don’t hate it. It’s basically any of a thousands pop songs written in the 90’s in the wake of grunge; trying and failing to be edgy, not as horrible as Creed or Nickelback, but as immemorable as everything by the Counting Crows.”
It’s actually changed a bit or is in a different vintage than when I reviewed it in April of 2020. Then I got a lot of green. Now, it’s more yellow, more stone fruit, and some actual minerality, which was apparently not there in April. It’s a bit meh, Spaceballs was a bit meh as well. Now what?