Cape Landing Blackwood Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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This is definitely one of the most impressive Sauvignon Blancs to come across the tasting table this year. The fermentation is with a mix of native and cultured yeasts, before maturation on lees in French oak barriques for around half a year. 10% of the oak was new. The wine is then given a short spell in stainless steel before blending, again on lees. A lemon/straw hue, this is unmistakably Sauvignon Blanc, but it does take things to a higher level than most. Hints of nettles and tropical notes combine and there is a flick of impressive oak integration evident. Good concentration throughout and early hints of complexity are just starting to show. An impressive texture, good intensity and excellent length, enjoy this for the next five to six years. A special Savvy.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
