I am usually a fan of New Zealand wines, and the 2008 Sacred Hill Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (about $15, 12.5 percent alcohol) was no exception.
It was a zesty white, a little grassy and slightly smoky, with a clean, crisp finish. Of course, sauvignon blanc is known as a great "food" wine, and the Sacred Hill was an amiable companion to last night's fresh pasta salad. The label bills it as having "tropical" flavors, which I didn't especially notice.
This wine seems to have made friends and enemies: The wine writers of the St. Petersburg Times named it a Wine of the Week in mid-July ("Given its exuberant fruit and exquisite dryness, this wine enters our pantheon of refreshing summer wines..."), while Tim's Wine Blog, based in the U.K., said it lacked "depth and complexity."
I thought it was somewhere between those two poles: a nice, easy-drinking summer wine, perhaps made more enjoyable by the fact that the season is quickly slipping away here.
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