2025 Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
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This is the seventeenth release of our Sauvignon Blanc from our close-spaced Crayères Vineyard. This vintage, the wine was fermented partly in stainless steel and partly in old oak barrels.
The 2025 vintage is a very savoury and dry example of our Sauvignon Blanc, with a good backbone of acidity. It also displays ripe fruit flavours, a velvety texture and, as always for this wine, a great persistence of flavours. It will benefit from bottle ageing, gaining some complexity with age.
The Crayères vineyard is located at the top of a north-south limestone ridge in Wrattonbully, one of Australia’s most exciting regions. This vineyard has been baptised the Crayères Vineyard after the chalk cellars in Xavier’s region of birth in Champagne, France because of the natural limestone caves found underneath the vineyard. The clay rich Terra Rossa top-soil, characteristic of the area, promotes nutrient uptake while the underlying limestone is a reserve of moisture for the vines. The Sauvignon Blanc was planted on rootstocks in 2004 using the F4V6 and H5V10 “Australian” clones on 101-14 rootstocks, at a relatively high density for the area (4,444 vines per hectare with 1.5m wide rows), which means more km2 of canopy per hectare, and better fruit exposure.The fruiting wire is only 50cm above ground which provides extra ripeness for the vines in this cool climate region. The fruit from the western part of the vineyard is retained for our Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc.
Read more about the Crayères Vineyard.
- “Complex and always an interesting and compelling vinous example of the variety” 94 Points – Tony Love | Wine Pilot
- “Saline, dry long finish punctuating the citrus and tropicals” 93 Points – Regan Drew | Vino Notebook
- “As usual, this is very good” 93 Points – Erin Larkin | Wine Advocate
- “Flavour just rolls along in waves” 92 Points – Ken Gargett | Wine Pilot
- “It’s most pleasant to drink” 92 Points – Campbell Mattison | Wine Front
- “A great wine in its infancy and at a wonderful price point” Marc Malouf | Wine Worth Writing About
