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Like a clear bubbling spring, it shows the purity of Sauvignon Blanc, with perfectly balanced acidity to keep it lifted off your palate, gently floating across your tongue and toward a creamy, briny, smoky finish. Sauvignon Blanc nerds can expect to feel it has one foot in the Loire and the other in Styria, a wholly under-appreciated bastion of the grape. 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