With one day to go, InterWined.com is bringing you the penultimate review from its Totally Awesome Christmas Cracker Wine Case, as it counts down the Twelve Wines of Christmas.

And on the 11^th Wine of Christmas, my liver said to me, “please drink something lighter”.

So, it is with the white 2005 Parducci Sauvignon Blanc. Grassy and crassy, with a citrus nose. Simple and zippy. A fun, fun wine. Could be aged in oak for awhile, though, to soften those edges: 8.5 alone; 8.7 points as part of a mixed case.

Totally Awesome Christmas Cracker Wine Case

2005 Cline Cashmere £12
2003 Frescobaldi Nipozzano Riserva Chianti £12
2005 Finn ‘Off the Leash’ Adelaide Hills £10
2006 Marotti Rubico Lacrima di Morro d’Alba £8.29
2004 Quinta Generación Casa Silva Colchagua Valley Chile £12
2004 Jean-Luc Columbo Les Forots Cotes-du-Rhone £11.49
2005 Katnoon Founder’s Block Coonawarra £9
2003 Ailes de Paloumey Haut-Medoc £9.49
2005 Domaine Saint Antonin ‘Les Jardins’ Faugeres £8.49
2005 Sleeping Dog Lies West Australia Shiraz-Cabernet £8
2005 Parducci Sauvignon Blanc Mendocino £8
2002 The Observatory Swartland £20 [InterWined’s Cellar Secret]

Follow its list and, with the year-round discount, the total should come to around £107. That’s less than £10 per bottle…

Don’t forget to visit tomorrow for review number 12 the 2002 The Observatory Swartland.

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