Reschke Late Picked Botrytis Sauvignon Blanc 2010
- 96
- $32
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Wow, this is some sort of wine. It’s obviously a dessert style. Now the plush, vibrant stone fruit mix of the primary fruits has been augmented with the passage of time, producing slightly toasty, concentrated honeyed apricot and nectarine characters. It had about 60% new French oak for about six months, and it seems this is an essential part of elevating the wine into something quite special. Layered, complex, with great balance. The use of oak and its fine natural acidity ensure the wine does not become excessively cloying, but retains a vibrancy that complements its natural rich sweetness.
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.
