Today's recommended wine
Taltarni, 2008 Sauvignon Blanc Victoria, Tasmania (Australia), $13
Taltarni has made great wine forever and has been an Australian pioneer of high-quality Sauvignon Blanc. And this vintage will drive that home. It has all the Sauvignon markers -- grass, grapefruit, citrus -- but this one does it with a lushness, and with other fruit notes like passionfruit. It's dry, but not austere. It has just the right acid balance to marry with the fruit. No oak, of course. You pick up on all that in the nose, which hits the nostrils with grapefruit, passionfruit and lemon-lime. Lush -- that's still the best word to describe it.
