2022 | Leeuwin Estate | Art Series Sauvignon Blanc

Detailed Description

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.

Reviews:

• 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.

• 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.

Producer Information

Leeuwin Estate, one of the founding wineries of the now famous Margaret River district of Western Australia was established in 1973 with its mission statement to: “Produce wines that rank with the best in the world through the pursuit of excellence”. In 1972, legendary Napa Valley winemaker, Robert Mondavi, first identified the future site of the Leeuwin vineyard as being ideal for the production of premium wine and provided early mentorship to owners, Denis and Tricia Horgan in the establishment of Leeuwin Estate. The first vines were planted by hand over a five year period from 1973.Featuring state-of-the art facilities, the winery building was opened in 1978, celebrating with a trial vintage. Leeuwin enjoyed its first commercial vintage in 1979, and was thrust into the international spotlight when Decanter Magazine gave its highest recommendation to the 1980 “Art Series” Chardonnay in an international blind tasting.