Howard Park Sauvignon Blanc 2024
- 93
- $33
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Here is a Sauvignon Blanc that’s been subtly augmented with oak to add complexity and texture into a variety that often exudes simplicity. So, in doing this, you have created an altogether different wine. Into the mix goes some small batches that were handpicked, whole bunch pressed and then fermented in oak. So the result is a wine of excellent and complex fruit intensity, but with layers created by that complexing oak addition. It’s vibrant and crunchy and loaded with deep, intense fruit flavours. A slightly minerally savory character completes a very tidy wine.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
