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Cape Mentelle Margaret River Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2017

93 POINT RATED JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION CAPE MENTELLE SAUVIGNON BLANC SEMILLON

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93 POINT RATED JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION
92 POINT RATED WILFRED WONG
91 POINT RATED JAMES SUCKLING
90 POINT RATED MIKE BENNIE THE WINE FRONT
5 STAR RATED WINERY JAMES HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION

Specifications:

Vintage:	2017
Source/Region:	Margaret River, Western Australia
Grape Variety:	Sauvignon Blanc
Cellaring:	Drink now
Bottle Top:	Stelvin
Alcohol Content:	12.00
Standard Drinks:	7.11
Rating:	93

Tasting Notes:

Bright and shiny, white gold with silver hues. The nose is a perfect painting of our Margaret River surroundings - a patch of ancient earth surrounded by vast oceans where fresh, crisp saline scents of the sauvignon blanc meld with the earthy unctuosity of the semillon. The nose is intense with nuances of yellow peach, rockmelon, passionfruit, lemon zest and juniper berry aromas, topped by a hint of white pepper corn. The first approach is very fresh with excellent vibrancy and tension, developing into citrus and melon characters. The wine is then textural and unctuous, ending with a long, zesty finish accompanied by a line of minerality that brings us back to the ocean cliffs and Margaret River mouth.

Technical:

The fruit comes from the perfectly suited cooler southern half of the Margaret River region, from our three vineyards of Wallcliffe, Crossroads and Chapman Brook. The typical soils of these vineyards are geologically ancient, free draining sandy loams with a high percentage of lateritic gravel. The vines are vertically trained, spur or cane-pruned with canopy manicuring to allow good air flow and dappled sunlight on the fruit.

Following a beautiful and promising flowering, summer was mild and our vineyards were fully dry-grown. From record wet winter and spring in 2016, the 2017 season started with water refill levels very high. The cool nights and mild

days provided the perfect growing conditions for delicate aromas, lower alcohol and fine acid balance in whites but delayed the harvest by three to four weeks on all varieties. Harvest finally started at Cape Mentelle on February 28th, with more generous yields than expected, across all the vineyards in the Margaret River region. This was not a vintage to pick by the numbers or by recipe, each micro-climate and parcel behaving independently within the vineyard.

When harvesting sauvignon blanc and Semillon, the emphasis is placed on capturing vibrant, fresh flavours with bright acidity. Fruit is harvested at night and in the early hours of the morning to take advantage of the cooler temperatures. In the winery, extended fermentation took place at very low temperatures in stainless steel tanks with approximately 2% of the blend fermented in oak.exceptional vinosity and perfect texture by bottled unfined in July 2016

Accolades & Awards:

93 Point Rated - James Halliday Wine Companion

"A 61/39% blend, 98% cool-fermented in stainless steel, 2% fermented in oak. Full of flavour, but perfect flavour balance makes deconstructing the components a waste of time - just accept the numbers. It's perfectly well able to develop for years, but there's every reason to drink it tonight."

92 Point Rated - Wilfred Wong

"Nothing cleanses the palate better than a Sauvignon Blanc, and when the winery combines this grape variety with Semillon, the results can be quite outstanding. The 2017 Cape Mentelle Sauvignon Blanc Semillon is at the top of its game. This wine is balanced, refined, and generous. Its aromas and flavors of ripe citrus, savory spice, and ripe wintermelon should pair it divinely with a crisp Dungeness crab salad with a lemon citrus dressing."

91 Point Rated - James Suckling

"Attractive fresh herbs with lemon citrus and gentle aromas of tropical fruit. The palate has a vibrant, tangy edge with lime and fresh grassy flavors. A bright, crunchy finish."

90 Point Rated - Christina Pickard Wine Enthusiast Magazine

"Waxy lemon, wet wool, apple blossoms, grass and dried herbs form on the nose. The medium-bodied palate offers a chalky texture, with a lemony zing that leads to a herbal and mineral finish. This is a food friendly wine that would be tasty with goat cheese."

90 Point Rated - Mike Bennie The Wine Front

"Lemon-lime scents, green herbs, pepper, faint salt bush character. Very fresh and fragrant. Tight and lemon-limey to taste, zingy, nervous, racy and very long in flavour. Bright refreshing thing with faint ‘etched’ texture. Extends in the palate well and feels very pent up, almost shrill."

Huon Hooke The Real Review

"Pale yellow hue; dusty sulfur and grassy, green pea, snow pea aromas. The wine is sweet-and-sour on the tongue and this results in a jazzy, zesty presence. A simple, pleasant, crisply fresh, high-acid dry white."