Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2024
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- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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From the Crayères Vineyard in Wrattonbully, this is always a much lauded Sauvignon Blanc. 2024 was an excellent vintage for the region. This is not your average swill-thrill-and forget Savvy, but rather, a complex and well-worked effort that lifts it well above and beyond the ordinary offering. 57% was whole bunch pressed and fermented in old oak with the remainder in stainless steel. Malo is avoided. 4,950 cases. The palest lemon hue, this is a complex, intense and yet elegant style. There are citrusy notes throughout, with hints of limes and grapefruit, and a hint of dried herbs. Fine, rather gentle acidity, this really does offer a much greater degree of elegance than usually found with this variety. A lingering finish, the wine will drink beautifully over the next half dozen years. Very impressive all round.
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.
