We took a chance on this bottle from Trader Joe’s (Mountain View, CA). The Nikau Point 2019 sauvignon blanc is a bargain at Trader Joe’s. $5.99 per bottle. Get it while it’s available.
This is a grapefruit-style wine. Normally we’re leary of this flavor profile because it often has too much acid on the palate. Not this time. The flavor is pink grapefruit.
Nikau Point is one of fifteen brands from Wine Portfolio NZ.
Tony Lima has been a wine fan since arriving in California from the east coast in 1974. He's lived the growth and expansion of the industry first hand. He's seen the fickle California wine consumer fads pop up and burst... the craze for Zinfandel, then oaky Chardonnay, then Merlot, now Pinot Noir. His day job was Professor of Economics at California State University located in Hayward. (He retired in 2016.) His undergrad degree in chemical engineering (MIT) and his MBA (Harvard) and Ph.D. Economics (Stanford) are the root of his interest in the Business of Wine. He is a card-carrying member of the AAWE - American Association of Wine Economists.
