Cape Mentelle Wallcliffe Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2018
- 95
- $49
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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A superb Wallcliffe release. Captures the Bordeaux white blend style with pitch perfect precision. Opens up with snow pea, green bean, cut grass aromatics in tandem with green apple and a lime cordial-like intensity. Restraint is everything and with it comes a sophisticated purity of fruit expression. A light coating of barrel-derived complexity on the palate lends an almond skin mealiness – an added extra dimension – to the wine. Crisply cut throughout in gooseberry, herbals, asparagus spears, citrus, waxy lemon, apple and showing an almost equal partnership of the two grapes: Sauvignon blanc (56%) and Semillon (44%). Finishing dry and bright, this is one smart wine.
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.
