Tasty, with green apple tart, lemon pie filling and sour pineapple candy flavors. Zesty acidity makes it clean. Finishes kind of sweet, but it’s a nice sipper with salty-sweet foods, like ham and cured meats.——S.H.(11/1/2010)—— 85

Dry and super-crisp, this Sauvignon Blanc will get your tastebuds watering. The zesty acidity brightens flavors of limes, Meyer lemons, white pepper and vanilla. Great restaurant wine, with more than 100,000 cases produced.——S.H.(11/1/2009)—— 86

Fetzer’s done a nice job at making a dry, crisp Sauvignon Blanc that’s easy to drink on its own, or to pair with a wide variety of food. The lemon and lime, grapefruit, fig, vanilla and pepper flavors are zesty and clean. ——S.H.(11/15/2008)—— 86

Only a wise old company like Fetzer, with vast access to good vineyards and decades of winemaking experience, could produce such a nice Sauvignon Blanc in such huge quantities. The wine is dry and crisp, with rewarding flavors of green apples, pink grapefruits and figs. It tastes smoky and full of vanilla, even though it has no oak.——S.H.(11/15/2007)—— 85