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Tasting Notes(1)
3.8
Fun to taste. Typical SB nose, but the structure goes oily and creamy and very round - barrel-aged Sauvignon from the New World, which doesn't show up all that often. A touch vulgar, a touch cloying (not about sugar - about texture). Seeds, flowers, melon. Amusing rather than essential.
About
Petaluma's Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc in the regional, broader-sourced White Label register: fruit drawn from seven small vineyards across the cool Adelaide Hills rather than a single Distinguished Site. The back label gives the 2017's specifics as a mid-February pick, fermented 87% in stainless steel and 13% in oak barrels - the small oak fraction giving slight textural lift while keeping the tropical-and-herbaceous primary fruit at the centre. 12% ABV.
2017 in the Adelaide Hills was a cool, late vintage after a wet winter and cool growing season - harvest ran four to six weeks later than 2016, with retained acidity and elegance over power, and lower alcohols than the warmer years either side.
