Craggy Range Martinborough Te Muna Sauvignon Blanc 2024
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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A Savvy from the Martinborough region in New Zealand, rather than the more familiar Marlborough, yet it still offers the classic Kiwi flavours. The slightly cooler climate gives the wine some welcome drive. There are 10% whole bunches used, with fermentation in stainless steel, French oak barriques and French oak puncheons, 2% new. The colour is a shimmering pale lemon, while the nose exhibits powerful aromatics, with passionfruit, guava, citrus, nettles and a hint of lantana, but it is the tropical characters which are to the fore. There is bright, slightly crunchy acidity and impressive length. An obvious Savvy style, which fans will love. Enjoy over the next four years.
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.
