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by Sinkroenissity » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:42 pm
Just found this thread. I lived in Oregon during the time their Pinot Noirs made the leap from under-the-radar-great-local-wine to ludicrously-hyped-national-wine. A decade later I went to New Zealand and had my first glass of one of their local Sauvignon Blancs with my lovely wife while sitting in a restaurant literally across the street from the ocean, eating a lobster (although they call them "crayfish" down there). The next day we drove up to the wineries and hit a few tours and bought some bottles, then stopped in a supermarket in Blenheim and bought over a kilo of the green-lipped mussels (scooped them out of a giant blue plastic container, just like a cheap bulk bin. The cost in US$/lb worked out to under 90 cents), drove back to our motel with kitchenette, and did a moules mariniere with them and some of the just purchased Sauv Blanc.
There have been many times in my life that sucked, but that was NOT one of them.
Of course, now New Zealand wines (their Pinot Noirs too, interestingly enough. Guess there's a "type"of place I like) are all the rage as well. I'm still a sucker for good NZ Sauv with seafood.
