Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Late Harvest 2024
- 90
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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When life gives you Botrytis, grab it with both hands and make a delicious sweetie. We all need a sweet dessert wine in our lives especially when less, rather than more, are being produced, so, when we see a late harvest Sauvignon Blanc with its gorgeous scent and sweet ways, it’s time to pay attention. The aromas are a mix of spring and the exotic in ginger, jasmine, honeysuckle, green tea, dill, green herbs, citrus and passionfruit pulp. With 5% Botrytis, it offers just a gentle layering of Botrytis-inspired marmalade, an almost delicate touch, on a palate that offers an embroidery of citrus – lemon, cumquat and lime – highlighted with sweet honey notes and a distinctive lemon sherbet lolly confection note. Youthful and fresh, racy acidity offers balance to the sweetness. A little touch of sweet hedonism to enjoy with dessert.
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.
