Cattail Creek Collaboration White, 2009

This wine was a m-fing challenge to open. The screw top wasn't fully perforated, so after many manual attempts we ended up going at it with a screw driver, hoping it would be worth it.

This is a wine for a special occassion though, especially given the $22.95 price tag. Available only through the winery, we judged that if any white were worth this amount of money, it would be this one, with the caveat that I would not drink it every day.

A-  This wine smells like pineapples and mangoes to me, like summer time. It tastes very apple-y and minerally to me. It has a kind of floral front taste to it. It is quite sweet  but also a bit dry but also not puckery, like some rieslings and Sauvignon Blancs can sometimes be. It has a slight hint of vanilla too, with a light hint of oaking and smokiness, but not overwhelmingly so. I love how many fruits there are going on in this wine, there are different fruit tastes on each different sip on each different part of the tongue, making this wine a complex joy. While it is partly reisling and gewurtztraminer, it is much more complex than our other reisling gewurtz. The sauv blanc adds a really different level to the fruity sweetness of the other two grapes. It tastes a bit like a peach stone to me, sweet, but also bry, but not bitter. It is the kind of wine I think 10 people could taste and get something different from one another. I would drink it in the place of champagne at special events because it is dry and a bit sparkly like champange without being puckery or headache inducing.

M- This wine smells like pop, summer, or apple juice. It is gentle at first, and then intense, and then back to nothing again, which is unusual for a wine. It would be good with dinner because it is light, flavourful, and has its own stand out taste which worked seperately from the food. It has a nice colour, like a yellow diamond. It is good and holds up for sipping like a good red but is lighter like a good white, without being overwhelmingly sweet.