2024 Stoney Rise Savagnin

Winemaker Joe Holyman has never shied away from a challenge, and over the years has constantly grown his range of wines.

A few years ago they heard about a former cyclist on the North-West Coast of the Apple Isle growing Savagnin. Intrigued, Joe and his wife Lou, drove up, had a look, and convinced him to sell them some fruit. This isn’t the ullaged style of the Jura, but still Savagnin in character, something that always stands apart from the minerally whites we’re so used to seeing here in Aus.

Savoury and saline, there is nice tart fruit on the nose, some, as expected, tight acidity, yet all the while, textured and quite moreish on the palate.

93 points
"Apricot, grapefruit, a gin and tonic with a slice of lime thing, ginger and spice. It’s a fleshy wine, saline and savoury, with a good cut of citrus acidity, chalk dust texture, a sort of honeyed richness too, nectarine and lemon peel on a finish of good length, albeit slightly warm. It offers full flavour and a point of difference. Very good."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)