2021 Coates Sauvignon Blanc, Adelaide Hills

A delicious wine, managing to bridle sophistication with a crunchy unravelling of guava, greengage, hedgerow and fennel. Mid weighted and textural. The wild ferment in oak, imparting complexity and the x-factor that sauvignon never attains without it.

93 points Ned Goodwin MW winecompanion.com.au

The fruit was given minimal skin contact and pressed using a closed tank press to yield the softest fruit characters. Post press the juice was racked to barrel to remove coarse solids. The Sauvignon juice was natural yeast fermented with fine solids in 15% new and the balance seasoned French oak barrels then aged on lees for nine months.