Riversdale Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2022

Close your eyes. Tasted blind you might be tempted to call this wine out as a Riesling. Such is the bright, citrussy acidity and purity of lemon, grapefruit and green apple fruit that it’s highly suggestive of Riesling, but then the arrival of delicate herbal, vegetal aromas and flavours sets you down the Sauvignon path. It’s an exhilarating wine as we have maybe come to expect from the grape but rather more sophisticated and delicate in delivery. Sourced from Tasmania’s Coal River Valley, fruit was picked early (11.5% alc.) which goes to explain the brisk acidity with mineral textural interplay, the focus on citrus and green apple and the injection of palate-enhancing lantana, grass and green bean.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic