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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at B and.

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Speaker 2: Have you looking for a good drop this weekend? Master

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Speaker 2: somalier Cameron Douglas has chosen his recommendation. It's the Two

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Speaker 2: Rivers Convergence Sauvignon Blanc twenty twenty five from Marlborough. It

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Speaker 2: retails for about twenty two bucks and Cameron is with

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Speaker 2: us now Calder Cameron, Good morning, Caudra tell us about

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Speaker 2: the convergence.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's called convergence because it is the origin of

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Speaker 3: the fruit comes from both the Arbitterri Valiant River and

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Speaker 3: the Wairau Valiant River areas in Marlborough. So it's bringing

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Speaker 3: those two ideas of soil and fruit and energy all

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Speaker 3: into one blend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah nice. What does it taste like?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's We're seeing a lot of twenty twenty fives

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Speaker 3: come onto the market at this time of year, and

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Speaker 3: I've chosen one that really ticks all the boxes of pungent,

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Speaker 3: right rital, high energy characters. So it delivers on flavors

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Speaker 3: of everything from bell piper to lime peel, to apple

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Speaker 3: to white peach. It even has that sort of tropical

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Speaker 3: lick of green mango that I really like in Cape Gooseberry.

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Speaker 3: Some people find Sauvignon Blanc have like a fresh herbaceousness

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Speaker 3: to it as well, which I call basil or sage

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Speaker 3: in a wine. But it really is this wine that

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Speaker 3: has a youthful, high energy, laser like acidity about it,

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Speaker 3: lots of fresh fruit flavors. It's just so delightful and

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Speaker 3: salivating on the palette.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds great. So the twenty twenty five and

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Speaker 2: has must I mean this must have only just at

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Speaker 2: the market.

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Speaker 3: Right, absolutely true. I've been tasting wine at home this

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Speaker 3: morning and I've had a couple of reaslings Gavert's treminas

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Speaker 3: and Sauvignon blancs as well, so they're starting to come

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Speaker 3: across my desk for a review.

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Speaker 2: Oh very good. So what would you match with the

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Speaker 2: two rivers convergence of Nan Blanc.

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Speaker 3: Well, this one's all about crunch, It's all about intensity

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Speaker 3: and pungency. So I think food that is either crunchy

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Speaker 3: or fresh, salty or rich works very well with Sauvignon Blanc.

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Speaker 3: And I have a couple of different options for listeners

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Speaker 3: to consider. And if you like fresh oysters, then Sovin

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Speaker 3: Blanc is definitely a classic match for you. However, not

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Speaker 3: everybody likes oysters. So if you are into muscles, freshly

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Speaker 3: harvested barbecue on the boat, green lip mussels are nice

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Speaker 3: and salty for Sauvignon blanc, it works really really well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds yeah, it sounds absolutely amazing. How has

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five vintage been for those marble producers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really good question, and it's been pretty

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Speaker 3: near perfect actually, And I think it's all about the

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Speaker 3: delicacy and the thresholds of ripening and growing of fruit

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Speaker 3: from flowering first and foremost those conditions at right then

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Speaker 3: the croploads are perfect, and then you have to meet

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Speaker 3: the threshold of fruit set, which happens shortly after and

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Speaker 3: again this was near perfect for them, and then no

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Speaker 3: disease pressure. So it's a wonderful, wonderful vintage. It really

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Speaker 3: is a gift of nature back to us and giving

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Speaker 3: us or giving us wines that we're really going to

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Speaker 3: appreciate and enjoy. And if you find a wine that

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Speaker 3: has this little saltiness on the finish, that's part of

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Speaker 3: the acid line that really does get the taste buds alive.

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Speaker 3: It sort of wakes them up.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's as stupid cameraon thank you. So that's the

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Speaker 2: Two Rivers convergence. Somnon Blanc twenty twenty five is the

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Speaker 2: vintage and it retails for about twenty two dollars. Will

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Speaker 2: make sure the details are on our website.

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