Salt River Sauvignon Blanc 2023, Savage

The 2024 Salt River combines fruit from a 35 year old bushvine vineyard in Stellenbosch. Named for the trendy area of Cape Town that Savage Wines calls home, it’s bursting with white pepper sprinkled gooseberries, elderflower, tangy starfruit, white currants, passionfruit and pomelo and its pith. Straight as an arrow, with icy cold Atlantic sea spray freshness.

Flavours of orange blossom and grapefruit with lovely mineral tension and a fresh saline finish. It drinks more like a Pouilly Fume than a Marlborough Sauvignon, with a real lushness to the palate. With terrific body and stunningly long in the mouth, it’s tasting great now, and we’re sure it will age with grace too.

The Maker:

Salt River combines fruit from a 35 year old bushvine vineyard in Stellenbosch and another coastal site in Walker Bay. Duncan Savage is the most awarded winemaker in South Africa for the Sauvignon Blanc (and Semillon) variety.  He’s also regarded by peers as the best there is with the grape. Even Eben Sadie shares this view.  He learned from the legend, Didier Dagueneau, who took Pouilly-Fume to new heights, and honed his techniques at Cape Point, for whom he made Platter 5-star wine after Platter five-star wine, and which he left in 2016 to concentrate on his own range, Savage Wines. They are now one of the most sought after wines in South Africa.

Salt River is in the heart of the city of Cape Town, reminiscent of Shoreditch in London a few years back. It also happens to be the home of Savage Wines.

Additional details:

Vegan friendly, Low Sulfur