Trevelen Farm Fume Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2011
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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You’ve gotta be kidding me – $22 for a 10-year-old wine that is drinking beautifully? This is a French oak influenced savvy which shows that in the right conditions – unlike the rest of Australia, 2011 was a cracking vintage – and with careful winemaking you can get something very special from aged sauvignon blanc. Creamy and nutty oak has merged with the delightful guava light tropical apricot fruit characters to create something special with a rich and textured multi-layered profile. This vineyard produces fruit with a particularly high natural acidity providing its marvellous capacity to age and retain its vitality and energy as witnessed here.
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.
