Deep Woods Estate sauvignon blanc 2025

Here is a perfect illustration of how you can get sauvignon blanc in a pretty good year, expose it to some partial barrel fermentation, and achieve something quite special. It retains its obvious stone fruit characters on the nose, but with some fine nutty, citrusy influences that herald a wine of some complexity. It has a crunchy, lively, and quite vibrant mouthfeel, with that textural element coming from the barrel ferment. I love drinking this style when it's young, when it's so well balanced, but it has some years left in the cellar.