2017 Sauvignon Blanc
The 2017 Sauvignon Blanc comes from grapes picked from our estate grown 33 year old vines.
The consistently warm summer produced a wine with slightly higher alcohol than usual, resulting in a sauvignon blanc with more body, giving it a rich mouth feel, while maintaining its herbaceous flavours.
Vintage Details
After the earliest vintage on record at Gembrook in 2016 due to extreme heat in December and January, spring preceding the 2017 vintage was cool and wet in the Yarra Valley. This delayed budburst and flowering, resulting in a later harvest.
However summer brought beautiful even, warm temperatures with cool nights; perfect weather for a long ripening season for our grapes. Happily, Vintage 2017 will produce wines in the tradition of excellent quality expected from Gembrook Hill.
Picked: 6th March 2016
Alcohol: 12.7%
Tech Specs: pH: 3.4 TA: 7.1
Cellaring: 8-10 Years
Closure: Stelvin
Gembrcok Hill turns out such beautilul sauvignon blanc.
It boosts both power and composure but best of all is the wine's honed, stately length. Controlled and long are the best words to describe this wine, It tastes of barley, woodsmoke, herbs, steel and tropical fruit, the net all of
juicy, complex and flavoursome. A certain chalkiness to the finish works here too, as always,
Rated: 94 Points
Tasted: July 19
Alcohol: 12%
Price: $35.00
Closure:Screwcap
Drink: 2019 - 2024