Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Reserve Fumé Blanc 2023
- 95
- $59
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is the first release of a Fumé from this close-planted vineyard, coming from a very cool season, even cooler than the cold and wet 2011 vintage. The conditions suited this Wrattonbully vineyard well for Sauvignon Blanc. Hand-picked with intense bunch thinning to keep yields low and concentrate flavours, the wine was whole bunch pressed and fermented in older 600-litre oak barrels. The result is a beautifully fine structure with oak seamlessly integrated, underpinning quality fruit. Oak influence is evident on the nose but sits harmoniously alongside lighter tropical citrus notes. The palate is minerally, fine, and persistent, extending effortlessly to a very long finish.
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.
