Forester Estate

Margaret River Premium Sauvignon Blanc 2024

Grape variety - 100% Sauvignon Blanc.
Oak maturation - 37% of the wine spent 5 months in French Barriques. 3% in new oak and the balance 1 and 4 year old oak.
Colour - Pale straw-green.
Aroma - Ripe with pungent passionfruit, lychee and blackcurrant with light cedar oak and hints of smoke, lanolin, flint, nettle and box tree.
Palate - Medium bodied with a creamy texture and fine acidity providing a racy drive across the palate. There are fresh fruit characters of gooseberry and passionfruit with lime and roasted red capsicum. The finish is long and fruit driven with refreshing acidity.
Food matches - Goats cheese salad with asparagus, scallops with pea puree.
Peak drinking - Drink now to 2027.
Viticulture - Our Sauvignon Blanc vines were meticulously managed to ensure a balanced crop and suitable canopy management. The 2024 vintage was a warm year for white grapes in Margaret River allowing plenty of time during January and February to ripen the fruit to our specification.
Winemaking - The fruit was harvested very early in the morning, then sent immediately to the winery for processing. 63% of the wine was fermented in stainless steel with a known yeast strain. The remaining wine was fermented in French barriques with 24% of the blend being fermented with wild yeast on medium to high solids. The final blend was put together in July 2024.
Storage and Bottling - Bottled under screw cap into a premium burgundy bottle in August 2024. After elevating the Sauvignon Blanc to the ‘Premium’ status within the Forester range in 2009, we have further increased the structure and complexity of the wine through barrel fermentation, partial wild fermentation and storage on lees.