"Excellent focus & drive" Wine Orbit
Complexing notes in Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc ’21 make it satisfy now yet more than capable of ageing
Enjoy with grilled or lightly pan-seared white fish with a fresh leafy green salad
Te Mata Estate Cape Crest Hawke's Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Te Mata Estate Cape Crest Hawke's Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2021
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Awarded 96/100 Points & 5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2023
Description
- Dry style
- Barrel-fermented
- White peach & nectarine
- Guava & lime
"Combining stunning fruit purity with elegant complexity, the wine shows crunchy apple, fig, kaffir lime and white floral aromas with a hint of savoury pastry. The palate displays excellent focus and drive, wonderfully complemented by fine texture and perfectly pitched acidity, finishing superbly long and vibrant. At its best: now to 2035" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2023
A bright and pale straw colour, Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc ’21 immediately offers up notes of guava, lime juice, white nectarine and white peach, that all lead into a palate exploding with tropical fruit, salinity, and a fine, crystalline acidity. The perfect match for a plump fresh oyster in its half shell, the complexing notes of woodsmoke, grapefruit and juniper in Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc ’21 make it satisfy now yet more than capable of ageing. Moreish and complex, this is a wine of immense reward. Cape Crest ’21 will continue to evolve in the bottle for 10 years from harvest.
Cape Crest and its gannet symbol refer to Cape Kidnappers, the southern point of Hawke's Bay, home to the world’s largest mainland colony of these remarkable marine birds.
The fully ripe grapes for Cape Crest ’21 were hand harvested from individual plots within Te Mata Estate’s vineyards between 1 and 8 March 2021.
The separate parcels were each destemmed and lightly crushed, then cooled before a brief period of skin contact. Following pressing and cold-settling, they were run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines were aged on lees, with regular stirring, for a further 11 months before bottling in February 2022. Cape Crest ’21 is a blend of 87% sauvignon blanc, 9% sauvignon gris and 4% semillon.
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