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Basket Range, Adelaide Hills, Australia
Lucy Margaux Savagnin Sensual 2025
Lucy Margaux (Anton van Klopper)
Sulphur-free Basket Range Savagnin — textural, saline, a little wild.
$33.00
750mlVintage may change. If it does, we’ll notify you of any price adjustment before dispatch.
About
Anton van Klopper's take on Savagnin from the cool of the Adelaide Hills: wild fermentation, ageing in neutral vessels, and nothing added at any stage — not even sulphur at bottling. Green apple, ripe pear and citrus peel sit over beeswax, crushed herbs and a briny, coastal minerality, with almond skin and gentle spice on a dry, finely grippy finish. A subtle oxidative touch gives it a wild aromatic edge while the variety's signature acidity holds the structure.
Van Klopper doesn't plan his blends ahead of time. He decides what goes into each wine on the morning of bottling, and draws that bottle's label himself the same day. He has said knowing the plan in advance is a mistake. Not knowing is part of what keeps the wine interesting, even if he finds the uncertainty exhausting.
He has also cut his own production nearly in half in recent years, from around 120 tonnes down to 60. He now works with organically farmed fruit only. It's a small, hands-on operation built around instinct rather than a fixed method. That is part of why each vintage of Sensual turns out a little different from the last.
Producer note
Van Klopper finished his oenology degree at the University of Adelaide in 2001, bought a cherry orchard in Basket Range the next year and made his first estate vintage in 2007. A founding member of The Natural Selection Theory collective, he farms biodynamically at around 400 metres and works with no temperature control and no additions — the wines are entirely sulphur-free.
Structure
Grape
Picked on Stef's structure profile.
