Riversdale Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 95
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Speaks of all things green and then balances it with some scintillating aromatics. A sweet grassy fragrance in gooseberry, snow pea, citrus blossom, grapefruit and gentle herbs. Smells so fresh and alive. A distinctive and equally fresh and crunchy acidity brings the palate to life. Sauvignon can be overly herbaceous, aggressively so, but here it is well measured against citrus and nicely countered with some lip-smacking passionfruit pulp to close. Good intensity throughout, crunchy and flavoursome, and boasting a finer finish than most.
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.
