Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Has Been Released

Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc is one of the most highly sought after wines in the world, and with good reason. Since it started production in 1985, the wine has offered incredible flavor and quality and a number of characteristics that help to make it unique. With elderflower, gooseberry, and green pepper flavors as well as a hint of oak and Semillon, the wine has a flavor that is hard to describe, but easy to remember. Since it first arrived in the UK, demand has made it one of the hardest wines for consumers to get their hands on.

New vintages of Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc are released every October, which means that the 2010 vintage was just recently released. For residents of the UK, obtaining a bottle of the wine means getting your name on a waiting list with a retailer as soon as possible or paying more than double the standard price. The wine is just that good and just that popular. Even in countries outside of the UK, including the wine’s native Australia, demand is high and the wine is one of the most popular choices in terms of a quality sauvignon blanc.

The Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2010 vintage offers aromas of nectarine, mango, lime, grapefruit, and papaya as well as fennel, orange blossom, and gooseberry floral notes. The season was unseasonably warm to start followed by a cooler spring, which helped to improve shoot growth, and weather was optimal during flowering. Rain rarely interrupted the harvest of this season’s grapes, which means that the fruit was steadily harvested at its ideal level of maturity, producing a higher quality vintage. The final acidity of the vintage is 7.7 g/L, and the total alcohol content is 13.5%. The pH of the vintage is 3.14.

Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc is always ranked near the top in comparison to other sauvignon blanc offerings in the same price range. The 2010 harvest produced a top quality vintage, which means that market demand is expected to be at least the same. For people in the UK, waiting lists have already formed for these bottles and sellers are depleting inventory as quickly as it arrives. For the rest of the world, the news of the wine’s release is being met with near equal anticipation as wine enthusiasts get ready to enjoy yet another top quality vintage from Cloudy Bay.

By: James N. Nicholson

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