Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2023
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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This is a highly lauded Sauv Blanc and deservedly so. Their fifteenth release from the close-spaced Crayères vineyard. Partly fermented in large old oak and with no malo, it is a world away from the cheap and cheerful Savvies that seem to proliferate when drinking and not thinking is required. The colour is a pale lemon with green flecks. A worked style, this is Savvy with full-on complexity. Citrus and spices to the fore and there might just be the merest whiff of oak. Lemons, grapefruits and gooseberries. The wine is delightfully fresh and there is good linear acidity here, along with impressive length. There is a slightly sour note right on the finish which ties things together. Good drinking, now and for the next four to six years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
