Sauvignon Blanc | (Probably) The best wine class you will ever watch (MW teaches Wine Newbie)

Hi, Wine lovers !

I present to you ” Wine Newbie becomes Wine Savvy” content.

Elle (my lovely wife/editor of channel) will be having classes with two Masters of Wine.

Patrick MW and Peter MW will be educating Elle (also our subscribers) all the important wine grapes and wine producing regions. This is free education classes in addition to Patrick Farrell MW’s YouTube Channel “Dr. Pat Farrell Master of Wine”

Comment below what kind of grapes/regions you want to learn, and we will start producing more videos.

The Riesling shown in this video is available to purchase at Peter’s Website below(Discount code: SoulofWine). It’s made by Peter in collaboration with Steinmetz. It is bone dry Riesling and off-dry Riesling is also available. It is a single barrel wine that Peter selected himself.

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A friend of mine invited me to a blind tasting and it was a cheated tasting so we saw all the bottles and then they took the same bottles mixed them all up and put them back there were 12 bottles with a bunch of wine lovers but the same bottles I was the only one that got them all right and that is when I realized that I had a skill that I could nurture Thank you ! he’s a server today okay it’s recording? okay can’t say any bad words ! she might like that we don’t want that I’ve got an idea for Min you put in a different bottle of different wine just to keep us honest we have to think in the blind testing which one is not Sauvignon Blanc I think we only brought Sauvignon Blanc I got plenty it’s very easy to mix up very dry Riesling with Sauvignon Blanc Sauvignon Blanc used to be most famous in Loire where it is almost always 100% of Sauvignon Blanc and the great and expensive wines of Sancerre and Pouilly Fume typically the two best Loire appellation for Sauvignon Blanc are bone dry for the most part do not see much oak at all some do but do not see much oak Sauvignon Blanc is also very famous in Bordeaux probably achieving its Pinnacle in Grave but grown all over Bordeaux and Entre-deux-Mers in Bordeaux, you get light simple Sauvignons that really are very inexpensive just over $10-11 up to very expensive Sauvignon blancs from some of the great properties in Bordeaux Sauvignon Blanc is likely to be blended Sémillon and sometimes with a little bit of Muscadelle and a lot of it sees oak there will be an oily character to those Sauvignon Blancs in the New World Sauvignon Blanc is grown and has been grown California for a very long time, South Africa New Zealand, Australia almost everywhere in the world a real up and comer today in quality Sauvignon Blanc from many type of climate is Chile but Sauvignon Blanc is an adaptable grape as well in many parts of the world in California they didn’t really I don’t think like the characteristic of in your face Sauvignon Blanc so they tended to try and make Sauvignon Blanc in sort of what they perceive to be friendly style more melons and figs versus the austere Sauvignon character so when I’m tasting American Sauvignons I look usually more for the melons and figs character New Zealand which is arguably today the most famous, source of quaffable drinkable and serious Sauvignon Blanc tends to make a multitude of styles including oaked styles but to me quite obvious usually a little bit of capsicum a little bit of green pepper but some gooseberry, kiwi the classic descriptor of Sauvignon Blanc One I said it’s like a cat peed on a gooseberry bush so the classic descriptors for Sauvignon Blanc gooseberries and cat pee what I look for in Sauvignon is delightful acidity it is a high acid grape it’s not as high as it is Chenin or Riesling but it is a high acid grape and for that reason you can get lovely crispness and live and vibrancy I wrote a lot in Greek or in Korean? in Korean and in English what we have done here is to keep us honest we have put 1 Riesling in here and then Sauvignon Blancs from 5 different places there’s a Sauvignon Blanc from South Africa one from Loire one from Bordeaux one from California one from New Zealand and the Riesling is from Germany it is bone dry so what I suggest we do right now is cause this is a double taste for you firstly they’re all sauvignon Blanc except for one can you figure out is your taste good enough for you to say these all have a family resemblance that one stands apart that will be the first test and once you’ve done that then we are going go through each of the Sauvignons I’m going to try and identify the country of origin a bit more difficult and when we’ve done that we are going to do a cheated tasting we will go through the wine one by one and I will explain to you what you should be getting and then we’re going to empty the glasses and refill the glasses with exactly the same wines but in a different order and then see if how good you are at that so that tests you in multiple ways plus improves your blind testing skills the most important part of being a good blind tester which is to develop a taste memory and this is what gets you to start to develop a taste memory a taste memory is that ability to taste the wine and say I’ve had this before and go through your brain like a computer and say that’s it I totally don’t have that well that’s our job is to totally help you to get it also when blind tasting what I always do is first nose the wines and then taste another thing it doesn’t really matter what the shape of the glass is as long as you use the same shape of glass for every wine these are my standard testing glasses I use these when I’m blind testing for red or white because not only are they are identical which is important but they are a shape I understand I know I have a sense after all this time I’ve been of using these glasses of the effect of these glasses on the taste of the wine so I remove immediately two things distortion of the taste of the wine by using different shaped glasses and not messing around with my own taste memory by tasting the wine out of different types of glasses on different days drinking is different matter you drink whatever glass you want but tasting I find standardization to be if not absolutely vital then very very important Sauvignon Blanc what you should be looking for on the nose of Sauvignon Blanc is again a little bit of that gooseberry character a little bit of cat urine a little bit of capsicum green pepper but a very very small amount sometimes there’s a little bit of hint of gunpowder sometimes that can be a whiff of sulfur dioxide but Sauvignon Blanc can be very flinty flinty and stony, gravely you look for those characteristics with Riesling you look for floral more floral than Sauvignon Blanc fresh spring flowers and a hint of gasoline petrol which is the Riesling? No. 3 ? or 2 !! no pick one read your notes for No. 3 and your notes for No. 2 my note ? okay No. 2 high acid, gasoline and Riesling for No. 3 gasoline, high acid, oily and Riesling I know that you put just one Riesling but there were two wines that has gasoline so I told you that sometimes Riesling fakes you out as Sauvignon Blanc I agree with you but I have picked one which is the one? 2 or 3 okay let me smell one more time No.3 I agree yeah !!! high five okay No. 3 is the Riesling alright that was my favorite one it was my favorite one too okay do you have any ideas where any of the others come from No.1 for me is buttery, oily, and it tastes very heavy you said the Bordeaux use oak so I thought it’s Bordeaux you thought that was the Bordeaux for number two I thought it was Riesling No. 4 I think it has stone fruit and it has acid we had a Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand a few days ago I think it’s very similar with that so it’s from New Zealand No. 5 I think I taste kiwi a little bit of green pepper so I think that’s from New Zealand too we only got one from New Zealand oh I think it’s floral but the floral thing is for the Riesling for No. 6 I think it’s buttery for me so this come from Bordeaux or California you did a good job yeah I did it’s so fun it’s fun, isn’t it ? yeah I have always said blind wine tasting is the most fun you can have with your clothes on with my clothes on ? LOL with your clothes on! with clothes off is a different manner what if I cloth off and then blind taste ?? now we’re talking !! now, this is the second part of the test which is can you recognize what you have already tasted put in a different order they are the identical wines that you already had just put in a different order and we took the Riesling out since it was easy for you to tell the Riesling tell me what you thought why No. 1 was and why For No. 1 I think it’s Sancerre was because um.. it’s floral it has a little bit of oak so,typically Sancerre is not oaked Noooo you should not be saying I thought it was Sancerre because it has some oak that would not be a correct deduction It could be a Sancerre with oak that oak should not lead you to Sancerre But the most serious most expensive wines typically tend to be oaked The Loire, if they do use oak at all it’s very old oak used as a container know what After you say it doesn’t have an oak The oak is gone Lol It’s a magic it’s very high acid so it’s not Sancerre what is it then ? Go back and look at your previous notes perhaps there’s something very similar or Sancerre ? (No more option) This is the South African wine No wayyy And that actually makes me as a South African quite happy because I’ve long believed that outside of that style of unoaked sauvignon blanc I’ve long believed that South Africa is right up there with the best of them A good option for Sancerre if you going to spend considerably less money no my Africa line No. 3 maybe wrong too alright Come let’s see how you do it on No. 2 I thought it’s New Zealand Cloudy Bay okay Okay So we don’t need to talk more about that It’s in your face pungent New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs are very similar to each other I think that Cloudy Bay I used to be able to tell as I can with this one Cloudy Bay almost entirely on the nose It’s so pungent so in your face They tamed it for a while but this is not a tamed wine and it’s a giveaway in a blind tasting it’s definitely New Zealand and probably Cloudy Bay there’s a little bit of passion fruit there a little bit of capsicum what is capsicum ? Green pepper Oh No.3 I thought it’s South African but No. 1 was South African so I changed to sancerre okay tell me why you thought it was South African and why you now think it’s Sancerre and not the others okay that’s a difficult problem so I thought it was South Africa because it has the lightest taste I just changed it with the number one Now I can smell the floral note It doesn’t smell a lot There’s a complexity to this one and I agree it’s similar to the South African wine there’s a complexity and a smoothness here that the South African wine doesn’t have and you are right it is a Sancerre MIN !!! let’s just fire him Yeah we have to fire his ass There we go Cloudy Bay We drank a lot ! one mix up means two wrongs right number four number four I thought is Clos Du Val because it’s the second oakiest one because it’s the second oakiest one and you are right I think you’re a good teacher No, you’ve got a good palate Just need to develop it Now it’s coming out Can you feel with the Californian wine that this less of the green gravelly characteristics and more like fruits like pears and figs it’s hard to find figs It is hint of the sweetness. I agree with you but maybe a bit of pears apples but definitely ripe fruit whereas most of the others do not have maybe South Africa a little bit but not an overt sense of ripe fruit taste I tasted some buttery note in it So that would be Malolactic fermentation OH it could be Malolactic not oak Well no it usually that they put it in Oak and probably saw some malolectic fermentation You must know the last one then Bordeaux Tell us about No. 5 You picked it out as the Bordeaux why You said because it was the darkest Yes and that’s fair because it was the darkest and that made it the easiest to pick it I didn’t even have to retaste it I feel some oak there I didn’t like the balance I found it butter Probably once you’ve got some oak there there’s a little bit of malolactic fermentation so you get the buttery character it’s Pessac-Leognan with arguably the focal point for fine sauvignon blanc in Bordeaux As I’ve gotten older more and more I’m enjoying unoaked high acid minerally white wine of which Riesling is probably the greatest Teach me Riesling next time Okay great! It’s yours right yeah It was very honored to have a class with the master of the wine Thank you Well thank you You are a very very good student You have a good palate The idea being at every point in time to get a sense of the most important grapes in the world how to recognize them from other grapes to understand the basics the basics are the most important grapes in the world and the most important styles in regions of those grapes it requires two things It does not require an absolutely spectacular palate The most important thing that it requires is desire The desire to learn A lot of people out there they say leave me alone "Leave me aone, I just want to drink some wine" "I don’t care what slope it comes from" "I don’t really care if it went through malolactic" "did, didn’t see some oak or wooden chips" or whatever it might be and there are other people who were like me when I was young says "I want to know everything" slope, soils pH of the must and all of those things related to making tasting wine so it all depends on how much of a geek you want to be people ask me what does it take to become a master of wine the answer that I always give them is you have to care about the kind of things about wine and grapes oenologe and viticulture Where normal people look at you they shake their heads and they say "This guy needs to get a life" If you have that kind of passion about wine then as long as your palate is not damaged we can teach you anything I was the one who just want to drink now I’m here as a wine Newbie and I want to escape from wine newbie to the wine … um .. Savvy! So I’m going to study Today’s Sauvignon Blanc class I love it And I got 1 mistake and 2 wrongs Don’t get too excited about that because tomorrow you’ll get them all wrong Crying the key is to understand the process of trying to build a taste memory you know you might say to me well when will I have that done you’ll never have enough time people say to me that How good are you as a blind taster so well yesterday I had a great experience I tasted a wine I placed the wine within 100 yards of where it was grown I got the vintage correct and the price within $4 wow that’s amazing yeah but then the next one I tasted I got wrong by $50 5,000 miles and I got the grape varieties wrong that’s the world if you get jealous thumbs up and subscribe Have a great class with a MW HIGH FIVE !