Cape Mentelle Wallcliffe Sauvignon Blanc 2022
- 94
- $49
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Another fine vintage in Margaret River has provided us with an excellent release of this elite Savvy, with fruit sourced from their two southern-most vineyards. It spent time in top-notch French oak, 4% new, as well as stainless steel and concrete eggs, with eleven months on lees. Open the screwcap and the room is flooded with aromas of peaches and tropical fruits. The colour is a gleaming yellow with flecks of gold. The nose is redolent with guava, paw paw, mango and those juicy peaches. A minerally backing with crunchy acidity topped by good length. Expect the wine to provide pleasure for the next half dozen years, becoming even more complex over that period.
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.
