Quality NZ Sauv Blanc-Babich Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2025

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Hey
Domain
Dave
here,
cheapwinefinder.com
again
with
another
value
priced
wine
review.
It's
getting
a
little
harder
to
find
new
wines,
and
this
isn't
exactly
a
new
wine
at
all.
I
think
we
did
the
2019
vintage
of
it.
And
this
is
a
wine
I
went
to
Trader
Joe's
in
hope
that
there
might
be
a
new
Trader
Joe's
wine,
and
yeah,
there
wasn't.
Uh
but
I
got
a
Babbage
Marlborough
Sauvignon
Blanc
2025.
And
that's
not
a
bad
thing
because
Babbage
is
still
family-owned,
and
they
uh
started
in
1906.
They're
one
of
the
first
big
wineries
in
New
Zealand.
And
one
of
the
good
things
about
that
is
they
got
to
pick
out
the
areas
where
their
vineyards
are
before
everybody
else
did.
I
mean,
so
they're
good
vineyards
are
in
certain
locations.
Now,
um,
New
Zealand
has
a
lot
of
uh
uh
valleys
and
bays
and
all
that
kind
of
stuff
where
they
really
do
grow
good
Sauvignon
Blanc,
but
they
got
there
first,
and
that
does
mean
something.
So
also
Babbage
also
has
120
years
of
knowing
their
vines,
that's
pretty
good,
and
120
years
of
making
wine,
that's
pretty
good
too.
So
that
gives
them,
you
know,
most
of
New
Zealand's
um
wines
are
like
this
century.
I
mean,
some
of
them
go
into
the
1990s,
but
most
of
them
are
fairly
new.
So
having
an
old
hand
who
has
been
successful
for
120
years
is
fine.
I
think
I
got
it
for
$12.99,
which
is
around
a
buck
or
two,
one
way
or
the
other.
What
this
wine
sells
for
everywhere.
I'm
gonna
take
a
sip
and
we'll
talk
about
how
it's
made.
Savion
Blanc
is
kind
of
like
the
food,
the
like
restaurant
equivalent
of
you
know
farm
to
your
table.
They
grow
the
grapes,
they
um
I
think
they
machine
uh
harvested
them
too.
They're
getting
pretty
good
with
the
machine
harvest.
Used
to
be
all
hand
harvest,
it's
getting
hard
to
do
that
nowadays.
But
they
uh
take
the
grapes,
ferment
them.
With
um
one
of
the
nice
things
they
told
they
said
it's
the
MS
clone.
I
mean,
grapes
are
like
roses,
there's
a
thousand
different
grow
different
clones
of
the
grapes.
And
MS
is
a
uh
one
that
came
originally
from
California
and
it's
really
healthy,
and
uh
they
used
that
this
is
mostly
that,
and
they
had
like
four
or
five
different
strains
of
yeast.
And
each
lot
that
they
would
use,
they
they
would
start
each
lot
with
a
different
strain,
and
that
strain
would
bring
out
different
textures
and
flavors
in
the
wine
because
that
Savion
Blanc
really
responds
well
to
the
um
to
the
different
yeast.
You
know,
a
lot
of
people,
well,
you
got
to
use
the
yeast
that's
in
the
air,
the
natural
yeast,
and
that
is
nice,
but
here
it's
very
intentional
and
it's
bringing
out
different
characteristics.
They
had
like
four
or
five
different
yeasts,
and
each
one
of
them,
when
they
went
to
blending,
you're
bringing
in
different
flavors
and
textures
into
the
wine
with
basically
the
same
grapes.
So
that's
a
nice
way
to
bring
complexity
in
with
a
kind
of
a
value-priced
wine.
And
this
isn't
value-priced
as
such,
I
mean
this
is
a
good
New
Zealand
wine.
I
remembered
the
days,
it
wasn't
that
long
ago,
when
New
Zealand
Sal
Blancs
were
mad
dog
wines.
Spiky,
uh
wild
flavors,
good,
I
loved
it.
I
I
kind
of
like
a
crazy
wine.
I
mean,
they
used
to
like
Zinfandel
back
in
the
day,
Shiraz
back
in
the
day
when
they
were
trying
to
push
the
envelope.
New
Zealand's
kind
of
calm
themselves
down.
And
they're
kind
of
coming
more
in
line
with
the
Lord
of
the
Valley
in
France
and
other
places
too.
Which
is
nice
because
you
don't
you
don't
need
uh
a
stunt
wine
all
the
time.
You
know,
it's
sometimes
just
a
wine
that
tastes
good
is
good
enough,
or
more
than
good
enough,
really.
This
thing's
delicious.
Yeah,
this
is
a
really
nice
wine.
It's
it's
it's
your
classic
Marlboro
Sauvignon
Blanc.
It's
made
the
quick
way,
but
it's
got
a
lot
of
intentionality
to
it.
It
tastes
great.
Uh
the
acidity
is
really
in
the
pocket
and
it
gives
the
wine
good
length.
There's
nothing
not
to
like
about
this
wine.
So
it's
the
Bobic
Marlboro
Sauvignon
Blanc
2025.
I
got
it
at
Trader
Joe's,
but
you
can
find
it
anywhere
else,
probably
for
as
good
a
price,
or
maybe
a
little
better,
or
just
a
buck
or
two
worse.
So
this
is
a
nice
wine.
Um,
maybe
Trader
Joe's
sometime
will
decide
to
make
some
bring
some
more
wines
in,
or
maybe
they're
getting
out
of
it
altogether.
Seems
to
be
not
a
big
deal
to
them.
So
adios
keep
it
cheap.
This
is
a
very
good
uh
New
Zealand
Savion
Blanc,
and
I
got
a
good
I
got
a
wild
one
coming
up.
It's
from
Trader
Joe's
too,
but
this
is
something
I've
never
seen
before,
and
we'll
talk
about
that
in
a
few
days.
So
adios,
keep
it
cheap.
Bye
bye.