One of California’s top specialists in Sauvignon Blanc, Honig fashions fresh, lively, grapefruit-scented and flavored Sauvignons. Their 2006 Sauvignon Blanc is a classic, fresh, lively example displaying scents of lemon oil and other citrus in a light to medium-bodied style. It offers outstanding flexibility with food, and is best drunk over the next year. Tel. (800) 929-2217

Here’s a nice cocktail-style wine that pleases for its dryness and crispness. It’s basically a simple quaffer, with no oak at all, and rewards for fresh, ripe pineapple, Meyer lemon, fig and date flavors. Try with your best homemade Ahi tuna tartare.——S.H.(9/1/2007)—— 86