Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Late Harvest 2024
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A marvellous example of a late-picked style, this Sauvignon Blanc comes from a vineyard on the terra rossa soil of Wrattonbully. About 35% of the late harvest fruit was shrivelled, with just a 5% Botrytis influence, but it all comes together beautifully. After fermentation, the wine has obvious sweetness, yet there is a minerally, tight, crisp restraint that provides balance and avoids the cloying sweetness sometimes found in this style. The structure is reminiscent of late harvest wines from Bordeaux, showing another side to Sauvignon Blanc as a sweet wine varietal with a minerally citrus edge.
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.
