Ampersand Estates Pemberton Sauvignon Blanc 2024
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- $36
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Not your usual über herbaceous Sauvignon Blanc, but rather a smart and tasty young Sauvignon delivering a generous mouthful of flavour mixing herbals with light tropical fruits and a light touch of the exotic. Peach, passionfruit pulp, gooseberry and grapefruit citrus aromas come with a touch of lychee. This Sauvignon boasts a textural quality, it is quite a feature of the wine – an adjunct to what is some fairly brisk acidity – with a creamy, leesy mealiness that sits alongside ginger, sorrel, dusty herbals and a core of stone fruits, apple and pear topped with a squeeze of passionfruit pulp.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
