Bob Campbell, MW: Pungent, fruity wine with a touch of box hedge, passion fruit, ripe capsicum and a suggestion of tree fruit flavours. Good mouth feel and length.

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright straw. Green apple, lime and lemongrass on the nose, plus a light quinine nuance. Tangy and precise if not particularly complex, featuring good firm acidity providing ...

Connoisseurs' Guide: If showing the unmistakable grassiness of Sauvignon Blanc both in the nose and again on the palate, this rounded, easy-to-taste bottling is keyed first and foremost on direct ...

Wine Spectator: Apple blossom, pear and tangerine flavors are at the core of this wine, with a nice acidity to give the flavors plenty of intensity and freshness. Drink now. -MW

Wine Spectator: This fresh white offers lots of lively chive, flint and sea salt notes, leading to a tangy finish that leaves a mouthwatering feel. Not quite as long as the top versions, but ...

Wine Spectator: This delicate and grassy white shows floral details to the lemon, lime and pear notes on a light body. Zesty finish. Drink now. -MW

About this Wine: 11 ha in 6 blocks
Oldest plantings: 2000 in grey slate
Youngest plantings: 2006 in red slate and sandstone
First vintage: 1984
International origin: An early-ripen...

Wine Spectator: This vivid, intense white delivers bright, refreshing flavors of peach, tangerine and ruby grapefruit, with a fleshy texture. Spice notes mark the tangy finish. Drink now. 15,...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Sourced from Marlborough. A very fine nose with good delineation, good minerality with touches of limestone, lime and apple. Nice lift and perfume. The palate is finely balanc...

Wine Spectator: Appealing for its ripeness and fleshy body, this offers peach and citrus flavors that have a pungent grassy kick and tangy acidity. Spice, floral and mineral details fill in o...

Wine Spectator: Bright and jazzy, with a harmonious feel to the lime, pineapple and floral aromas and flavors, lingering on the citrusy finish. The best of three bottles tasted. Drink now. 2,...

Wine Spectator: Appealing for the fresh mango and lime juice flavors that are bright, clean and extremely refreshing. Shows wonderful focus and purity. Drink now. 8,500 cases made. -MW

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Sauvignon offers up plenty of varietal character in its white peaches, lime, tomato leaf and sage, all of which come together nicely in this representative Friulian S...

Bob Campbell, MW: Attractive wine in a classic Marlborough Sauvignon style with pungent passionfruit and zesty gooseberry, grapefruit and capsicum flavours. The wine has appealing purity and le...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Fume Blanc La Petite Etoile, from a vineyard in the Russian River, shows the influence of the site, the presence of 30% Sauvignon Musque and aging in French oak barre...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Very pale lemon-yellow color. Cool aromas of lime, mint, chlorophyll, white pepper and dusty herbs. Intensely flavored and fresh, with a touch of sweetness to the deep flavors...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Hints of mint and spruce resin pungently accent the fresh grapefruit and lime scents and flavors of Crochet's generic 2010 Sancerre whose sense of clarity, vivacity, and prima...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: From ten year old selection massale vines in a rocky, south-facing Oxfordian site south of Sancerre proper, the Vacherons' 2010 Sancerre Paradis - raised in wooden upright plu...

Wine Spectator: Equal parts delicious and intriguing, with spicy, smoky and floral notes. Meyer lemon, apricot and nectarine flavors end with a juicy, spicy finish, with touches of spice box ...