

93 POINT RATED JANE FAULKNER HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION & 93 POINT RATED ERIN LARKIN ROBERT PARKER WINE ADVOCATE
Vintage: | 2022 |
Source/Region: | Margaret River, Western Australia |
Grape Variety: | Sauvignon Blanc |
Cellaring: | Drink now or cellar up to 2026 |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 13.00 |
Standard Drinks: | 7.70 |
Rating: | 93 |
Woven layers of cut lime, lemon skin, black pastille and gooseberry. There is balance and complexity in the form of cardamom, coriander seed and fennel bulb. Energy and vitality are also evident with heightened lime blossom and salt bush.
The palate is punchy with tension. Direction is driven through a fine, mineral and laced acid structure. The primary fruits correlate from the nose with volumes of citrus and cape gooseberry. Texture is diligent with savoury oak notes in way on grilled almonds and spice. Long palate defined by a saline and talc finish.
Family owned, Leeuwin Estate, one of the five founding wineries of the now famous Margaret River district of Western Australia, is under the direction of two generations who work with a team of highly skilled winemakers to consistently produce wines ranking alongside the world’s finest. In 1972, legendary Napa Valley winemaker, Robert Mondavi, identified the future site of the Leeuwin vineyard as being ideal for the production of premium wine and provided early mentorship to Denis and Tricia Horgan in the transformation of their cattle farm into Leeuwin Estate. Enjoying its first commercial vintage in 1979, Leeuwin was thrust into the international spotlight when Decanter Magazine gave its highest recommendation to the 1981 “Art Series” Chardonnay.
93 Point Rated - Erin Larkin Robert Parker Wine Advocate
"The fruit for this 2022 Art Series Sauvignon Blanc was sourced from Block 17 on the estate. The wine is far more restrained and yet more powerful than the 2022 Siblings Sauvignon Blanc tasted beside it. The flavor draw across the palate is juicy and extended as it unfurls in the mouth, where you get blackberry bramble, snow pea, apple skin, leafy herbs, white tea and brine. Thirty percent of this cuvée was fermented in one-year-old Bordelais coopers. The reason for this is to highlight the phenolic tension. This is bolstered by very minimal yet still significant skin-contact time. The vines were originally planted to Shiraz in 1975 and grafted over to Sauvignon Blanc in 1981. The length of flavor in the mouth is impressive, certainly when considering the fact that it is restrained and insistent."
93 Point Rated - Jane Faulkner Halliday Wine Companion
"There’s a more textural element to the Art Series compared to the Siblings Sauvignon Blanc, yet this is also lively and full of bright, tropical fruit laden with lime, fresh basil and even a smidge of white pepper and lots of detail. Zesty, crunchy acidity and rather uplifting on a warm day."
92 Point Rated - James Suckling
"A layered nose of white peaches, poppy seed, dried lime and white tea. Medium-bodied with sharp yet well-balanced acidity that compliments the fresh stone fruit palate. Persistent, pleasantly dry and mineral at the finish. A bit of herbs and flowers, too. A charmer. Drink or hold. Screw cap."
Huon Hooke The Real Review
"Pale colour, almost water-white. Sweet tropical/passion fruit aromas, a hint of sweaty reduction that dissipated quickly; the taste is light and straightforward and reasonably dry. Very pleasant drinking."
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