Sorrenberg Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2025
"The earlier release of this wine over past years has had me a little skittish vis-a-vis showing the best without the extra time in bottle, but this year seems to have found requisite texture, savouriness and depth in its youth. Good news. I think there is way more to come from this wine, but the slip of nougat and gentle malo-esque feeling of creamy softness works well with the perky slosh of pulpy grapefruit and saline minerality that underscores the wine. On top, and to sniff on, pine-lime Splice, hazy green apple juice, faint pickled ginger, a little pine resin character and that skeletal feel of cooling saline veins through it all. It’s even, balanced and flows beautfully, with a gulpability that is a winner. No brainer. 95+ points." - Mike Bennie, Wine Front.
This wine comprises 75% Sauvignon Blanc, 20% Semillon and 5% Sauvignon Gris. Most of the Sauvignon Blanc fruit had 4 hours skin contact prior to pressing. The Semillon component is crushed and pressed immediately after picking. This wine was 100% barrel fermented with predominantly larger barrels used. All went through natural yeast fermentation and malolactic fermentation. The extended lees contact helps fill out the middle palate and gives this wine the extra dimension it is known for.
The nose of the 2025 Sauvignon Blanc/ Semillon shows citrus and stonefruit overtones with a hint of herbaceousness. This follows through to the palate combining with balanced texture and refined acidity, creating length and definition with a lingering finish. Winery note
'I visited the Sorrenberg Farm and it was a strong reminder of the individuality, singular vision and unswerving devotion to organic lifestyle that resonates from home, to cellar under the home, and, of course, into the verdant wilds of the farm and vineyard. You get the sense of a ‘classic European estate’ but it’s wholly Australian, with the shriek of cicadas and hemming of thick thatches of gum trees leaving a lasting impression.
I love that from the front door of the Morey home it’s a twenty second stroll past garden beds teeming with flowers, herbs and vegetables, ancient sheds and tractors, chooks and flotsam and jetsam of a life on a farm, to the vineyard. You almost need, as we did, to walk from the kitchen, a palpable beating heart of the family home, into the biodynamic scruff of vines to get the gist of what’s going on here.
You get the sense that the environment and protection of it is paramount, organic lifestyle at home resonates with such in mind, and, as a roll on, that vines, grapes and eventually winemaking come with a similar concern.'
Mike Bennie (excerpts from his notes following a visit to Sorrenberg in 2019)
