Savage Sauvignon Semillon 2021

$53.00

Product Notes

2021 was another cracking white wine vintage and this release sees the Savage White reach new levels of textural lavishness and palate breadth. The aromatics are rich and expressive with multiple layers of grapefruit preserve, peach tea, green apple pastille and delicate hints of chamomile, honey and pineapple. In the mouth the wine rolls across the palate with an impressively dense glycerol weight of fruit together with the most delicious tangy mouth-watering acids. The wine spent 10 months in oak, 20% new, which adds a very attractive but subtle lick of crystallised tangerines, vanilla pod spice and a waxy liquid minerality on the finish.

VARIETY : 69% Sauvignon Blanc, 31% Semillon

WINEMAKER : Duncan Savage

WINE OF ORIGIN : Western Cape

ANALYSIS : alc : 13.8 % vol rs : 1.7 g/l pH : 3.24 ta : 6.3 g/l

AWARDS

2023 Platter's Wine Guide - 5 Stars

ageing : Drink from release and over 8 to 10+ years.

In the cellar : Savage White is a blend with 69% Sauvignon Blanc and 31% Semillon from trellised and bush vine vineyards around the Western Cape. Whole bunch pressing and oxidative handling of the must is followed by a natural fermentation, with the Semillon portion going through malolactic fermentation.

Tasting Notes:

This is the second vintage of the Savage White after returning to a pure orthodox white Bordeaux style blend with 69% Sauvignon Blanc and 31% Semillon from trellised and bush vine vineyards around the Western Cape. The whole bunch pressing and oxidative handling of the must followed by a natural fermentation, with the Semillon portion going through malolactic fermentation, are undoubtedly part of the secret to Duncan’s rich, opulent style. 2021 was another cracking white wine vintage and this release sees the Savage White reach new levels of textural lavishness and palate breadth. The aromatics are rich and expressive with multiple layers of grapefruit preserve, peach tea, green apple pastille and delicate hints of chamomile, honey and pineapple. In the mouth the wine rolls across the palate with an impressively dense glycerol weight of fruit together with the most delicious tangy mouth-watering acids. The wine spent 10 months in oak, 20% new, which adds a very attractive but subtle lick of crystallised tangerines, vanilla pod spice and a waxy liquid minerality on the finish. Piercing and impressively intense, this wine has arguably never been better and serves as a liquid tribute to the quality of the vintage drinking well from release and over 8 to 10+ years. (8,300 bottles produced.)

(Wine Safari Score: 96/100 Greg Sherwood MW)