# CLICK > a wine bar ## Posts - [CHEAP SOUTH AFRICAN TO SHOW WHAT AN UNPRETENTIOUS BASTARD I REALLY AM!](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/cheap-south-african-to-show-what-an-unpretentious-bastard-i-really-am/): 3 April 2022 Right, so let’s dive straight in. Seeing as how I am caged in my flat like the rest of the fucking world, more or less unemployed, trying my hardest to remain active, sane, socially engaged, sober, and adult(ish) my choices of wine are limited. That said, had I a choice between a $4 South African from Lidl and Didier Dagueneau’s Silex (mind-boggling Savvy… from Pouilly Fumé) I might still start with the ZA savvy with a giant feline of sorts on the bottle, simply to show off what an unpretentious specimen I truly am.  In truth, it […] - [DAVID FROST WESTERN CAPE 2020](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/david-frost-western-cape-2020/): 2020 This was a Trader Joe’s find, to compliment the Nelson Mandela one, although outside of South Africa, and perhaps the douche world of golf, no one knows who the fuck David Frost is. I thought it was the BBC presenter. Apparently, he’s a golfer. I wasn’t too optimistic at first. However, after I deglazed my pot of what will be chicken and rice soup with it, I poured myself a healthy glass, not quite a Barnaby, but enough to get me through the next couple of hours. This is actually, a fairly sound effort, it has a bit of […] - [Sunday Not Sunday Or Total Wine Is All Private Label](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/sunday-not-sunday-or-total-wine-is-all-private-label/): Well, day 4 now of having no HVAC. Finn, Katie H, and I descended upon my mother’s pool and returned with a window unit, which is presently humming away in my bedroom, hell bent on cooling at least that much of the house. Behaving like a college student, I have placed a wee fan in the hall way, blowing out from me boudoir down the hall, and in the direction of the common areas. I’ve also placed the comically normal box fan blowing outward at the backdoor. Meanwhile, in front of me is this Governor’s Bay effort from Marlborough NZ. […] - [The Broken Modern World or Housekeeping in a Bottle](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/the-broken-modern-world-or-housekeeping-in-a-bottle/): 3 September 2021 Blue Shell Sauvignon Blanc French Coastal Wine Pays d’Oc 2021 Oof. Well, the ball dropped Wednesday evening as I came home from work triumphantly, expecting to simply be greeted with a course of meows from Jean-Luc, only to find that my fapping AC was dead, and that more misery lay ahead. Two days later, and nothing has changed other than the diagnoses is terminal, and I need to fork out around 10k to get a new bastard HVAC unit installed. I’ve not relied on fans since I was a renter in the Fan, 1993 or thereabouts, but […] - [Henrico, VA](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/henrico-va-2/): 14 August 2022 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2022 A Sunday, mid-August, not too hot, not too cool, but better than most of the summer in Richmond. Finn and I were in Nevada a few weeks back, and despite the 110F+ weather, it was still more comfortable than Richmond at 88Fish, thanks to the repugnant humidity, that I somehow, and probably rightly, associate with conservativism as a whole. On my way home to the ugly burbs, I slammed into Total Wine and More, as is normal only to find an empty building, dotted with about 3 employees exhibiting such a […] - [Henrico, VA ](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/henrico-va/): 21 May 2022 Picton Bay Marlborough NZ 2021 Here we are back, in front of a computer, with a glassful of Trader Joes’ swill. Or is it??? I’ve actually been drinking this wine for years. On the nose, unmistakable NZ Savvy, Guava and peach, and wow, not that much more. Here we get to a moment where I could be a real critical prick. And I will, but only out of professionalism, not for the sake of it. Now, I kinda like this, but it has all the complexity of a Trump supporter. Meanwhile, I’ve given up all hope of […] - [Solvang, CA](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/solvang-ca/): Solvang CA 23 March 2021 This is a holiday, kinda, I’m not in Virginia, but I am still taking orders, putting out fires, and constantly in wine world. I spent the entire day touring wineries and vineyards owned by Jonata, the Hilt, the Paring, etc. These guys are absolutely steeped in the history of what is now called Ballard Canyon AVA, Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County, California, US of A.  You can email me for photos, information, etc. for this trip, but this is about the now. I’m not going to dinner tonight. I’m tired of human interaction. Moreover, […] - [Finally…](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/finally/): 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. […] - [Tuesday in Charlottesville Back With Wine and Wodehouse ](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/tuesday-in-charlottesville-back-with-wine-and-wodehouse/): 5 Jan 2021 The first week after the holidays is generally a stinker, punctuated by a stack of paperwork up to one’s nipples. Add an on-going pandemic into the equation, and things tend to get profoundly messy. As I try to wrap my head around the future, I am inclined to find a bit of background noise, and Wodehouse strikes the very note. Therefore, whilst indulging myself, with Blandings, featuring Timothy Spall, the greatest living English-speaking actor, Jennifer Saunders, etc, I have before me a very light, very subtle Sauvignon from Potomac Selections. It’s Thomas Calder, Val de Loire, Sarl […] - [Fleur de Napa 2019](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/fleur-de-napa-2019/): 6 December 2020 I’m back in the big leather chair, Small Axe season 1, and parked next to a cheap bottle from Trader Joe’s. Fleur de Napa has an ugly, unmemorable, label, and costs about $6. The ABV on this thing sits at 14%, which isn’t surprising. The thing is here, I don’t love it, nor hate it. As is typical, and expected, this is a peachy, citrusy wine, rich, a rather creamy mouthfeel, white pepper, moderate acid. It is interesting, that I can find this wine to be in possession of most of the basic attributes that I love […] - [Aslina Sauvignon Blanc Western Cape ZA 2019](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/aslina-sauvignon-blanc-western-cape-za-2019/): 9 August 2020 Few things make me more excited than a new round of vintages from Ntsiki Biyela. This week, I was fortunate enough to be swaggering about town with 4 of them, which is in fact all of her wines; Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and Umsasane a red blend of Cabernets Sauvignon and Franc, and Petit Verdot. Ntsiki, in case you didn’t know this, was South Africa’s first female, African wine maker in that nation’s some 350 years of making wine. She grew up in Zululand and was a bright student, enough so that in post-apartheid ZA, South […] - [Bold Wine Co. Sauvignon Blanc Arroyo Seco CA 2018](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/bold-wine-co-sauvignon-blanc-arroyo-seco-ca-2018/): 17 July 2020 I’ve been mining through inbound samples at the warehouse. Finding this Sauvignon Blanc, sent to me in the possible hopes that we shall decide to buy and distribute this in the Mid-Atlantic, has been a rare peak & plateau we shall call it, in a life of self-doubt & uncertainty. Presently, I’m sitting here, in me chair, watching my frighteningly massive, offspring eat cappellini off the stove in his bare, fopping, hands. We’ve done a lot today, rather I have, and we have rewarded ourselves with a flight of Karl Pilkington. This is solid California Sauvignon blanc […] - [Unexpected Sauvignon On Another Odd Day](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/unexpected-sauvignon-on-another-odd-day/): Early June 2020 Well, as much as I enjoy taunting imbeciles on Facebook, I thought it prudent to get back to this blog and do a bit of what some might call work. Here we have another shameless conflict of interest. This is one that is particularly close to home, as I was instrumental in creating this branding. Super Bloom is rather a big, viscous wine, with a dense glyceric mid palate and finish. The ABV is a whacking 14%, which for me is big for a red, much less a member of the more gentile and refined gender of […] - [Italy Does Savvy…](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/italy-does-savvy/): 1 May 2020 Alessandro di Camporeale Sicilia DOC 2017 So, branching out a bit, I grabbed this wee gem from me local. Having seen it around a bit, here and there, I figured I should give it a go. First off, I was intrigued, as Sicily isn’t exactly known for the acidity in their wines. However, and I won’t pretend I know squat about this producer, other than that the importers seem to be solid blokes, it is apparent that someone clearly knows what they are doing here. This is the Kaid Sauvignon. Having gone back sober to do a […] - [Blaggh…](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/blaggh/): 16 February 2021 Honestly, is there anyplace on earth that doesn’t just ooze Sauvignon Blanc like Transylvania? Okay, I’m being flippant, and yet here I sit, before an absolute beefcake of a bottle of Ana from Jidvei in the Transylvanian DOC of Tarnave 2018. In case you are American, and know fuck-all about world geography, that is in Romania. Romania, and what is now, Moldova, were once one big happy country called Romania. These are Black Sea nations, Eastern Europe, and during the cold war, part of the Soviet Bloc. One would think then that their wine industries suffered, but […] - [I’m In A Bad Mood OR This Better Be Good ](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/im-in-a-bad-mood-or-this-better-be-good/): 12 Dec 2020 It’s Saturday evening of a day where I’ve more or less done sweet fuck-all. I figured I may as well punctuate my superfluousness, with a bit of what no one but me would call “work.” My kid and I are presently getting on each other’s nerves, for various reasons. Meanwhile, I am at a stage where I hate eating, and dread hunger, as it means I will be required to eat. And yet, somehow, I am still portly to the point that I dread seeing myself in the raw, as much as I dread eating the food […] - [La Concepciуn Sauvignon Blanc Tarija Bolivia 2019 ](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/la-concepci%d1%83n-sauvignon-blanc-tarija-bolivia-2019/): 12 August 2020 Bolivia has been making wine for some 500 years. This is the first time I’ve had a Sauvignon Blanc from here. The nose has a bit of stone fruit and apples. This is a big, weighty wine, with a creamy mouth feel, balanced by high altitude, high-diurnal shift, acid. Lemon, and some orangey undertones, dominate, with bits of crisp golden apples, with the skin on. The finish lingers with what almost feels like tannins on the gums, and lemony apple juice on the tip of the tongue. This would be totally mental with shrimp and avocado. It’s […] - [Cheap French Behaving Like Cheap French…](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/cheap-french-behaving-like-cheap-french/): 5 May 2020 Belles Vignes Collection Sauvignon Blanc So, I was meant to be busy doing a Mexican wine tasting for a virtual group, but they never materialised, as people don’t understand the Mexican wine industry. I know a goodish amount about it, but I’m not going to share that here, or at least not until I have a Mexican Savvy to write about. Anyway, so here I sit, still listening to KCRW after about 5 weeks or more, and still wondering about this new world we are living in. Meanwhile, I finished my dodgy day at 1830 near Trader […] - [In Stark Contrast To The Last Time… ](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/in-stark-contrast-to-the-last-time/): 30 April 2020 Here is a moment with a wine I know very well. Mokoroa Sauvignon blanc is one of the cornerstones of Salveto Imports’ entire portfolio of, some, 700 wines. So, as I sat down in the big, beat-up leather, my favourite place to sit Indian-style, and write, work, think, and/or drink, I had to prepare me surroundings to accommodate the impending change in this wine. It is a structural alteration. I had prior knowledge of this change, and was being cautious. It is a global pandemic. Me nerves are a bit taut. Therefore, moments after I said “Finn, […] - [Annoyed After a Very Productive Day](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/annoyed-after-a-very-productive-day/): 20 April 2020 I’m not saying anyone owes me anything at this time. However, I’ve had an above-average day of quarantine productivity. Having finished Bosch Season 6, along with finally wrapping myself around the highly debated Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich, I got to bed at a reasonable time and popped up in the morning absolutely replete with positive energy and oomph! I sorted out an insurance issue, I sorted out a USPS issue, I fixed a board on my balcony, I ordered parts to fix my sliding door, and then I went to Trader Joe’s and bought, among other necessities this […] - [Radiçini Taking Root Sauvignon Blanc 2018 OR An Egregious Conflict of Interest](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/radicini-taking-root-sauvignon-blanc-2018-or-an-egregious-conflict-of-interest/): 19 April 2020 So, this is from Moldova, and the company I work for, when I am not in the middle of a pandemic, is the importer of this wine. Fortunately, I like this wine, so I don’t have to pan it, nor do I have to lie to the world to avoid a bollocking from bosses. Moldova is a very old wine-producing region. It was the eastern-most region of Romania until 1945, when Stalin made it a separate state within the new Soviet Union. During the cold war, the US and UK basically didn’t talk to anyone east of […] - [Why am I doing this..?](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/why-am-i-doing-this/): 13 April 2022 I suppose everyone has a criteria for what their favourite grape variety or wine is. At the very least one has a collection of preferred characteristic common denominators, that when a substantial enough are met, it meets with you overall approval. I suppose on the absolute lowbrow end of assessment, one might also find that if the style of wine is pleasing from the upper echelons to the plonk at the German discount supermarket, then this might be your wine. Mind you, we are speaking in terms of favourites, not in terms of the quality of the […] - [More Cheap Wine and a Bit of Gary Numan. ](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2026/01/21/more-cheap-wine-and-a-bit-of-gary-numan/): 14 April 2020 Today’s cheap offering is called Rшam and it states its provenance as North, Coast, Sonoma County, which is interesting, as Sonoma County is within the North Coast AVA, so why bother stating North Coast? The very New Zealand-looking label also states this wine was made in a sustainable winery, which is great. I do like sustainability in general. The alcohol sits around 13% and I paid around a fiver or so for it. Coastal California has no problem producing solid Sauvignon Blanc. Mind you, it will be different than what France, for example, has to offer, as […] - [Hello world!](https://clickwinebar.com/index.php/2024/06/05/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. 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