Hellow everybody and welcome back to what i’m drinking at the time. Over the past 2 days the wife and I have been chipping away at this:

Dominique Portet Sauvignon Blanc 2010, Yarra Valley Pyrenees

Dominique Portet is a little winery down in Yarra Valley own by father and son Dominique and Ben Portet who are big on old school French style winemaking (and could be french themselves!?). Got this little number when a bunch of good friends and us cashed in our scoopons for a Yarra Valley wine tour. Having zero responsibility to drive, we lapped up the vino like thirsty camels.

This sav must have cos we have 2 bottles! I think they were about $20-25 a piece, definately top end sav blanc price range, 13.5% acol which is surprising. I remember they also have a rose and champagne which made an impression on me. Did it deliver?

Sweet sour apples, a mix of granny smith and golden delicious with a fist full of passionfruit. Very appetising, extremely light and zesty. It has a tingly, almost fizzy feeling on your mouth and it almost floats on your tongue. Solid mouth feel though and has an intersting mix of salty sour fruityness which lots of apples, passionfruit, apple skins; kinda like the feeling when you bite too deep into a Nashi pear but have enough of the sweet bits. Heaps of a mineral aspect to the wine which mingles with the saltyness, imagine bath salts? kinda? The tingling feeling extends all the way to the finish and the sourness drifts off but the sweetness and saltyness lingers.

Interesting wine…what we found is it didn’t hold too well as it warmed up nor was it better (prob worse) day 2 so definately drink the whole bottle first time and on ice. Also, the tingling fizzyness subsided as the hours past. We also found it a bit difficult to pair it with food. We tried pork day 1 and prawns day 2. Definately worked better with pork, the wine has a weight to it even though the mouthfeel is light and the flavours come across very strong and accented. I’m thinking a feta and wallnut salad may match better, definatly on a nice sunny day.

Not sure if I recommend this wine which is strange because I distinctively remember singing its praises when we bought it…don’t buy wine drunk? or maybe I sould try this again, you know just to be sure 😛

Thanks for reading

Kenny