Riverdale Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2021
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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Channels the kind of über-herbaceousness that so many drinkers gravitate to. Explores a riper expression of the grape filled with tropical fruit and citrus scents mixed with an exuberance of fresh-cut grass, snowpea and gooseberry. And that’s just the bouquet. The dial moves up in intensity on the palate with an offering of lantana, green apple, citrus, herbals and mineral-like gunflint. While many of these immediate styles don’t generally allow for a textural presence, you will find it here. It brings something extra to the wine, including an ability to match a broad range of foods. Quite a stand-up-knock-‘em down kind of Sauvignon that just relishes being out of the bottle and into a glass.
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.
