2018 Moorilla Muse Sauvignon, Northern Tasmania

With 1% riesling. All from the Tamar Valley, largely hand picked. Four hours skin contact; no mlf. Intense and powerful, ricocheting with fresh lantana, frangipani and lemon squash. The vanilla presence of part fermentation and 9 months' maturation in oak barrels rises to the occasion, cut with a tense finish of malic acid drive that promises medium-term potential. It concludes long and a touch sweet. Anything it lacks in grace it makes up for in impact.

Tyson Stelzer winecompanion.com.au

This wine is made to sit somewhere between a typical Sauvignon Blanc and a Fumé Blanc, therefore, it is simply called Sauvignon. The wine is a blend of a number of batches of stainless steel fermented, but mostly barrel fermented wines. Verdant and herbaceous. Cucumber, rosemary and melon romp around a bright, grassy nose, with soft, luxurious tannins driving red apple, lemon pith and a slight savouriness across the palate. The light French oak treatment is expressed in a slight toastiness and an abundance of volume and length.”