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Stoneleigh Latitude Sauvignon Blanc 2014

May 1, 2015

Stoneleigh Latitude Sauvignon Blanc 2014

Sauvignon Blanc like this is an easy target. Big, sweaty and driven by those classic ‘cats-pee-on-a-gooseberry-bush’ thiols, it is a natural focal wine for the ‘anything but passionfruity Sauv’ school of modern wine critics.

But dismissing this wine because it’s built in an aromatic driven, gold medal hunting style is pure folly. It’s too impressively intense for that sort of scorn. Indeed it’s almost a caricature on the nose, such is the passionfruit, the pungency is backed by a juicy, fruity, heavyweight palate. Yet it has and doesn’t taste awkward.

Sancerre it’s not, and just a little hard around the edge, but gee this has a place – Sauv turned up to 11 to sing its style and origins.

Details: 13.5%, Screwcap, $24.99. Sample. Best drinking: 2015-2016. Score: 17/20, 90/100. Would I buy it? Not quite. A bit too OTT for more than a glass.
Buy online: Stoneleigh website

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    At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.

    Almost twenty years later and I currently spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.

    While wearing my writer cap I write features for the likes of National Liquor News, Gourmet Traveller WINE and the RAS plus I'm a Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert. Read more about me here or get in touch to book your next wine event with me here.

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