Craggy Range Winery Sauvignon Blanc 2003

Craggy Range Winery Sauvignon Blanc 2003

This one was a disappointment. We mentioned to the Eau Claire Wine Market staffer that we had enjoyed the Cloudy Bay and wondered what else she recommended in a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. This Craggy Range Winery Sauvignon Blanc from the Te Muna Road Vineyard (all their wines are single-vineyard wines) is the one she pointed us to, and on the strength of that recommendation, we bought it. And it was...ordinary. And that's being kind. Thin and uninteresting would be less kind. No, it wasn't bad. It was a perfectly satisfactory wine, of the sort hotel bartenders serve to people who simply ask for "a glass of white wine." But after the Cloudy Bay (which certainly cost no more than this one and may even have cost less--we don't have the receipts handy to say for sure), it left us cold. We were most disappointed, however, not in the wine, but in the fact that the Wine Market, which we were otherwise impressed with, let us down so badly. Our rating out of 10: 5.