Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Author: Erin Larkin
The Wine Advocate
“Australia has an excellent handle on the Bordeaux Blanc style: i.e., oaked Sauvignon Blanc (which may or may not include Semillon, Muscadelle and any number of other aromatic whites). To oversimplify the landscape: Margaret River in Western Australia produces a concentrated-fruit, pungent style that ages slowly and gracefully for up to two decades and beyond. There’s a standout producer in the Yarra Valley who produces one of Australia’s finest examples, and then there is Terre a Terre in Wrattonbully. Hand-picked from the Crayeres Vineyard, the fruit for the 2021 Crayeres Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc is whole-bunch pressed, cold-settled in stainless steel for three weeks and fermented in eight 600-liter French demi-muids; then the wine matured on full lees with no bâtonnage. This is a svelte, streamlined example of the style; it excels at conveying its aerodynamic framework of phenolics in the mouth, and it is all about the texture. We are lucky to have the quality of Sauvignon Blanc that we do here in Australia, and this is one of the very best.”
95 points
