TJ’s $5 Summer Sipper-Tazmin Breeze Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2024

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Hey welcome. It's uh Domain Dave, cheapwinefighter.com. With another wine today. This is a uh actually a cheap wine. It's from Trader Joe's. It's like the old days. I was kind of shocked. This is a$4.99 wine. It's the Tasman Breeze Marlboro Sauvignon Blanc 2024. From Trader Joe's, um, five bucks. You know, the the wine industry has been down about 15% for the last few years. They were kind of taken by surprise, I think. I mean, a lot of their forecasts for how many bottles they had to make and this and that kind of fell by the wayside. And this is a$4.99 Marlborough Savion Blanc, and it's not a dumbed-down, it's not um, you know, there are no bad vineyards anymore. They're all, they're all, and especially New Zealand, they're almost all in good places, and the vineyards are managed by quality people. So you're not talking about, you know, um, there was a time after the movie Sideways where they planted Pinot Noir because it was a big deal, and they planted it everywhere, including places that it should never ever have been planted. And there was a you could get bad Pinot Noir, but this isn't the case here. This is this is New Zealand Savion Blanc. And it's it's of a quality that you could pay twice as much and it'll match. So I'm gonna take a sip. The name is Tasman Breeze, which gives reference to the island of Tasmania, which is just off the southeast coast of Australia. Not that far out, at least not on a map. I wouldn't swim it. And then further east is the two islands of New Zealand, Marlborough's and the South Island. So it's uh Tasmania is sort of in between um Australia and New Zealand. I don't know if this means that the the vineyards were on the western side of Marlboro rather than the eastern side. I don't think it means anything at all. I just think it's a they think it's a cool name for uh Savion Blanc. The wine is from Delicado family vineyards, who also own Coppola. Um one of the interesting things I thought, and a little uh maybe a little clue to why it's inexpensive, other than the the wine industry is down, is that it was bottled in Lodi, California, Northern California, which is where Delicado is uh is that's where their main headquarters is. They also have a headquarters in Sonoma where they bought Coppola, but they brought in the juice, the Savillon Blanc juice in tanks and then bottled it that way they weren't paying shipping on the bottles, which are heavy. I mean you're paying a whole lot more, so that saves some money. So that kind of that kind of thing went into um coming up with a$4.99 wine. Plus, Trader Joe's uh doesn't uh take as big a profit as a wine shop would be since it's also a um a grocery store, and then they pay up front, you know, um, which gives them a better deal. So I'm gonna take another sip. This wine is a little more subtle than in tip than a well a New Zealand Savillon Blanc from a couple years ago. It's still got all the flavors, but it's kind of calmed down. There's a couple little spikes here and there of some really nice, interesting flavors, which are always nice. When you get that spike, you go, oh, there it is. And this is this this wine can compete with uh$10,$11 Sauvignon Blanc. You know, you get when you get up higher, then they start doing like 1520, they start doing things like um aging and oak, and then they they they use like eight different types of yeast to bring different flavors out, then they blend all those different uh lots of yeast together and get more flavor. That's more expensive. This is more I'm not saying they didn't use different yeast, but this is more pick the grapes, press the grapes, put the juice for a minute and keep it up to um wait two months or about that time for the wine to calm down and bottle it. I mean, just simple. Just fast, simple, easy, the way it's always done and the way that always works. So I'm fine with this. This is a nice little$4.99 wine. It's it's actually has no issues. I mean, I I I like the flavor, it's a little more subtle, but it's not a little more subtle like I'm losing something, it's just a little more subtle. That's a cool that's its nature. I'm taking another sip. Uh Delicado um is no stranger to New Zealand. They have Stonely, which is a well-reviewed wine. I'm not saying that there's any relationship between Stonely and this wine, I have no clue to that. Um, you know, so I'm not saying this is like a$14 wine for four, no. But I they do have ties with the uh New Zealand wine industry. And also, this is a 2024 vintage in 2026. Um young Savion Blanc current vintage today would probably be a 2025 because you know our our our summer and our uh our falls are our winters are are are switched, so 2025 gives it enough time to be perfectly fine for us. So 24 kind of tells me this is a leftover wine, didn't sell. So maybe there was like uh we need to sell this one, we need to get this one going, which is good for us. Trader Joe's made made their name uh in the 20, uh, 2008 uh uh uh economic crash where they had all these good wines for inexpensive times of money, and everybody was buying Trader Joe's, so maybe this is the start of us being able to drink a little bit because the economy's not great. So Adios Keep It Cheap. This is Domain Dave, cheap winefinder, Tasman Brees, Marble, Sabian Blanc 2024. And it's pretty good. Thank you. Good audio skip it cheap.