Oak-aged Sauvignon can
be a funny thing (particularly when it comes from the New World and not
France); it seems to lose those flavours that make it varietally distinctive
(gooseberries, nettles, sometimes more tropical fruit) and become stony and
austere, but with the promise of good aging. I’m not sure how long it will take
for the promise in this wine to be realised, but at the moment there is more
structure than flavour here. Five years?
From Perdriel, a
sub-region within Argentina’s Mendoza province.
84/100
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