2021 Savage White Blend South Africa

Winemaker Notes: 2021 was another cracking white wine vintage and this release sees the Savage White reach new levels of textural lavishness and palate breadth. The aromatics are rich and expressive with multiple layers of grapefruit preserve, peach tea, green apple pastille and delicate hints of chamomile, honey and pineapple. In the mouth the wine rolls across the palate with an impressively dense glycerol weight of fruit together with the most delicious tangy mouth-watering acids. The wine spent 10 months in oak, 20% new, which adds a very attractive but subtle lick of crystallized tangerines, vanilla pod spice and a waxy liquid minerality on the finish.

Blend: 69% Sauvignon Blanc, 31% Semillon.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM


Vinous - "The 2021 White has no Chenin Blanc in this blend so reverts back to the Sauvignon/Semillon blend, the former from the Rupert family; a spontaneous ferment with a judicious 10-20% new 500-liter oak. It has drop dead gorgeous bouquet with yellow fruit, lanolin and peach skin, quite pithy in style with just a touch of reduction. The palate is well balanced with a lively, slightly peppery entry, the Semillon expressive and dictating the ginger-tinged finish. It just grows with aeration-an outstanding white from Duncan Savage."


James Suckling - "Aromas of golden apples, lemons, toffee, hazelnuts and hay. Medium- to full-bodied with impressive tension. Structured and lingering with fleshy acidity cutting through. It has a chalky character with creamy finish. Drink or hold."


Wine Spectator - "Minerally on the nose, followed by a fragrant skein of sweet smoke and baking spices threaded through glazed pineapple and tangerine fruit, pastry cream and vanilla notes. This medium-bodied white is bright and expressive, showing fine knit and a mouthwatering finish, which echoes the initial minerality. Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon. Drink now through 2028."