Lenton Brae Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 95
- $26
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This is one of the earliest SSBs produced in Margaret River, and it’s still a cracking good wine. and I have to say, this is one of the best. It was made with a combination of tank-fermented juice some that saw a little oak in a mix of French barrels of different sizes, where it spent about two months on yeast lees. The influence of the oak is immediately apparent on the nose, but it has a minerally mix of light stone fruit and citrus with a gentle nutty influence. The palate is simply scrumptious, striking an absolutely precise balance between all the components, with crisp, lingering acidity. Terrific wine and a great example of the style.
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.
