Xanadu Circa 77 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2024
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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You don’t normally get this level of wine-making involvement in a wine selling for this price. The key to its complexity is the 8% barrel fermentation in new oak. It certainly added a high degree of complexity, evident immediately on the nose, but then certainly through into the palate. It retains the fresh, zippy, racy fruits on the nose that are all about this variety, with a slightly grassy, citrus character and some riper peach-like notes. The palate has a deep penetrating intensity, with a zippy acidity driving the melony, lemon fruit characters through to the finish. It’s a wine that screams out for current drinking.
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.
