Don’t buy this Sauvignon Blanc if you like Sauvignon Blanc, because you’d never know it was Sauvignon Blanc. It’s a wine that bristles with citrus and minerals. It's inadvertently cutting-edge, brushing shoulders with the ‘natural’ wine movement, without getting embroiled in all their dogma. It’s a wine that gives back as much in complexity as you give it in attention. It has clearly been shepherded from the vineyard to the bottle by a gentle hand; it’s not a technical wine that has been tweaked with knobs and dials. It’s minimalist, in the sense that it’s restrained, precise and linear, quite saline, but it’s spring-loaded too, serpentine, with a fine line of acidity from start to finish. It’s fruity, but earthy too - very earthy, in fact; petrichor and grapefruit; dry, but ample on the palate. Damn it, it’s just delicious! It goes extremely well with a simple grilled fillet of sea bream with just a sprinkle of salt and a squeeze of lemon. Or I can imagine it being great with charred squid or a lemony risotto. We put it through its paces with salmon sashimi and it worked a treat, the pristine fruit cleansing the palate. Why not try a bottle or two and give back your impressions. 13% alc. Aged in large oak barrels for 10 months. Low yields of 32 hl/ha. Drink now-2028.

Press review:

Jancis Robinson (Tamlyn Currin): “If ever a wine smelt like struck flint ... Or like the old moss-covered stones under a little highland waterfall. Don't expect conventional Sauvignon Blanc from this smoky, punctuated, green-and-gold wine that is ripped with herbal bitterness, rugged with stones, pithy with grapefruit peel and glistening with a tiny smudge of wild honey. If you can, give it time to warm up a little in the glass and relax – when it's cold it is a little bit hunched up in the shoulders. No hurry to drink this (so buy a few extra bottles to tuck away). It will evolve over the next few years. Drink now-2028.” 17 points