Winemaker Notes
Another bright and racy vintage, with flavors of green apple, lime, grapefruit, lemon zest, notes of minerality and citrus aromatics. Silky and light, balanced with nice crisp acidity. My favorite wine with oysters, it pairs well with most any seafood.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Tangent Sauvignon Blanc is on target. TASTING NOTES: This wine is tasty and satisfying on the palate. Enjoy its generous aromas and flavors of dried earth, savory spice, and earth with longneck clam sashimi. (Tasted: December 17, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Tasting Panel
Smooth and lush with a lively, ripe style; rich, round, and long. An in-depth exploration of this varietal, with several lots blended together to express its many aspects.
Capable of a vast array of styles, Sauvignon Blanc is a crisp, refreshing variety that equally reflects both terroir and varietal character. Though it can vary depending on where it is grown, a couple of commonalities always exist—namely, zesty acidity and intense aromatics. This variety is of French provenance. Somm Secret—Along with Cabernet Franc, Sauvignon Blanc is a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon. That green bell pepper aroma that all three varieties share is no coincidence—it comes from a high concentration of pyrazines (herbaceous aromatic compounds) inherent to each member of the family.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.