Chain of Ponds Black Thursday Sauvignon Blanc 2021
- 89
- $20
- Drink by: 2021-2025
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Are we there yet? Have we reached peak Sauvignon Blanc overload? I doubt it. Like Chardonnay before it, we embrace the diversity of a classic grape like Sauvignon and we look to a range of styles, not just one or two. Still, the style we first came to love – the über-exuberant, party like it’s 1999 sav – is still alive and thriving. Black Thursday Sauvignon Blanc falls into that category. It’s brim full with the contents of a tropical fruit bowl, exploding out of the glass. Passionfruit, gooseberry, melon, stone fruits, citrus . . . you can smell each individual piece of fruit. The snow peas and canned peas bring the herbal interplay so essential to the grape. They party on the palate. It’s all crunchy acidity and freshness on the tongue. Black Thursday is a well-priced, easily understood Sauvignon. No need to pull it apart and contemplate its reason for being. Just enjoy.
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.
