Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

TODAY I’m recommending some white wines I encountered at O’Donovan’s recent tasting.

You might consider them for Christmas dinner as alternatives to sauvignon blanc and chardonnay.

Those two grapes often represent two contrasting styles: In broad brushstrokes, sauv blanc is most commonly characterised by stinging, prominent acidity accompanied by piquant flavours, whereas a chardonnay will often play on the broader end of the scale with richer tropical flavours, often accompanied by further breadth of oak.