2008 CHARLES KRUG SAUVIGNON BLANC
NAPA VALLEY

Eric Asimov, New York Times wine critic, lauds the
only American white wine brought to the wine panel.
Here’s an excerpt…

Gathering at the Table, Bottles in Hand
By Eric Asimov, NYT, November 11, 2009
“FOR six consecutive years, the Dining section’s wine panel has
gathered for an early Thanksgiving meal. The mission: to taste
potential holiday wines, to determine what works and what does
not with a representative feast, and to offer coherent answers to
the annual question of what to serve with the bird.
This year, I think we really got it right. The wines need to be
versatile…And they must be modestly priced.
…Julia Moskin, Florence Fabricant and I were joined by our new
restaurant critic, Sam Sifton, and, as always, Bernard Kirsch,
our tasting coordinator. We each chose two bottles, one red and
one white, maximum price $25, and we tasted them blind with
our Thanksgiving-style meal.
…the real sauvignon blanc in the group, a 2008 Charles Krug
from Napa Valley brought by Florence, had an unusual whitepepper
element to it that made me think it was grüner veltliner.
Not even close! We all really liked the Krug…”

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