Cape Landing Sauvignon Blanc 2019

This crisp single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc has a refreshing palate of stone fruit, melon and cinnamon, balanced by focused flavours of pear and lime, with subtle tones of creamy French oak. The judges at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2020, in their tasting notes, described the wine as "Heady with tropical guava, herbaceous grass and gooseberry aromatics, lime marmalade, spice and bright lifted acidity sparkle on the elegant, focused palate."

Cape Landing – 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Art 2.pdf

• RegionMargaret River, Western Australia
• Vintage2019
• TypeWhite Wine
• VarietySauvignon Blanc
• Variety Composition

  Classic 100% Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc

• Volume750ml
• Alcohol Volume13.2%
• Bottling Date

  August 2019

• Background

  The fruit was picked at optimal perfume and flavour, while still preserving natural acidity.

  Our 2019 Sauvignon Blanc has been recognised with a medal at the Langton’s 2019 Margaret River Wine Show and a Gold Medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2020 (‘DWWA 2020’). The wines rating of 96 points at DWWA 2020, made it the highest rated Sauvignon Blanc in Australia at the DWWA 2020 and the only Sauvignon Blanc from Australia to achieve the distinction of a Gold Medal.

• Vintage Notes

  The 2019 vintage in Margaret River was very challenging but ultimately very successful. Spring was slow and cool, Summer was moderate with reduced strong solar days and wet weather restricted. The failure of many native tree species to flower led to late season bird and bee pressure but late warmer conditions produced fruit of superb quality despite lower than average yield.

• Vineyard Notes

  Our blocks of Sauvignon Blanc vines are all planted north- south, allowing even sunlight and warmth on either side of the canopy throughout the growing season. The canopy is managed to ensure a perfect balance of shade and light, keeping the fruit healthy and allowing for gradual and controlled development of fruit flavour while retaining the grapes’ natural acidity and minerality. After veraison, the vines are covered with bird netting through to harvest.

• Winemaking

  Our pristine Sauvignon Blanc fruit is harvested in the cold, early hours of the morning. The fruit is destemmed and crushed to press cold, with the low temperatures at harvest and during processing, helping to preserve the finer and more delicate aromatics and textures. The juice is separated from the skins as quickly as possible, to avoid any extraction of harsher phenolics, but still yielding a juice of fine texture and focus. After a brief settling, only the clearest juice is racked off lees and the fermentation process begins, with a small percentage fermented on premium French Oak. The ferment is kept cool for its duration, once again helping to preserve and retain the more delicate aromatics and characters of the fruit and growing site. Once the wine is dry, it is racked off its heaviest fermentation solids, with approximately 30% of the wine fermented on premium French Oak and matured sur-lee (on yeast lees) for 3 months, before being returned to stainless steel for blending, light fining, filtration and bottling.

• Tasting Notes

  This crisp single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc has a refreshing palate of stone fruit, melon and cinnamon, balanced by focused flavours of pear and lime, with subtle tones of creamy French oak. The judges at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2020, in their tasting notes, described the wine as "Heady with tropical guava, herbaceous grass and gooseberry aromatics, lime marmalade, spice and bright lifted acidity sparkle on the elegant, focused palate".

• Style

  Class Single Vineyard 100% Sauvignon Blanc

• Colour

  Pale lime green with hints of mother of pearl.

• Bouquet

  White pear, grapefruit and freshly cut limes.

• Palate

  A pristine entry of white fruit and a tensile balance of acidity and fine fruit tannin. Flowers, rockmelon, nectarine and cinnamon drive a palate of purity and mineral persistence.