Sauvignon Blanc
2025
Southern Right is a small Pinotage and Sauvignon Blanc specialist located on a strikingly beautiful 448 ha property in the cool, maritime, Hemel-en-Aarde Valley appellation, just behind the old fishing village of Hermanus. Founded by Anthony Hamilton Russell in 1994, Southern Right's aim was to produce a serious, age-worthy Pinotage (South Africa’s unique red grape variety) combining a distinct South African fruit and flavour expression with classic styling and refinement. It is Anthony's...
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Made in a way ensuring the personality of site and soil is not over-ridden by the forceful character of the variety, this wine exhibits the typical Southern Right balance of tight "Old World" minerality and length with hints of "New World” texture and body. The 2025 is a wine that favours individuality, minerality and palate complexity ahead of simple, pungent varietal aroma. A significant percentage of fruit from iron and clay-rich soil (46%) has added a textural and structural component and additional overall complexity to this wine. Granitic soils (28%) have added openness and perfume, while sandstone soils (26%) have contributed their typical bright, tensile character and a marked, saline minerality. This is Sauvignon blanc as fine wine, not Sauvignon blanc as simply a varietal expression.
Southern Right is mostly made with purchased grapes, combining components from Elgin and Walker Bay. Focused, savoury and wild yeast fermented, it partners grapefruit and aniseed flavours with some added texture from a portion of older barrel-aged wine.
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Fresh and focused, offering flavors of pink grapefruit granita, lime zest, pickled ginger and graphite. The well-spiced, salty finish is driven by sleek acidity.
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The 2022 Sauvignon Blanc comes from 27 sites and sees 10% matured in 7th fill neutral oak barrels after four months on the lees. Attractive on the nose with Golden Delicious, pine and light resinous notes. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, quite taut and lightly spiced; just a faint hint of stem ginger appears towards the finish. Enjoy this over the next seven to eight years.
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Sourced from 35 different parcels across varied soil types, the Southern Right 2025 Sauvignon Blanc offers lively aromas of passion fruit, guava and citrus, with a subtle lift of white pepper and dried ginger. Crisp and lean on the palate, it shows bright acidity and a clean, quick-drinking personality that makes it an ideal lunch companion on a hot summer afternoon. A small 7% portion of the blend spent four months in neutral oak, adding a touch of texture.
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