David Jeffrey’s remarkable Chalk hill blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon, which has been compared to a top white Graves (at literally hundreds of dollars) is perhaps our favorite California Sauvignon blend. And the 2021 vintage is especially dazzling.
John Gilman rates it one of their best ever, at 92+, saying:
The 2021 bottling of Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon from David Jeffrey at Calluna is composed from a cépages of seventy-two percent of the former and twenty-eight percent of the latter this year. It tips the scales at thirteen percent octane and delivers a very refined bouquet of grapefruit, fresh fig, a touch of beeswax, discreet grassiness, a lovely base of soil and a gentle foundation of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied, focused and rock solid at the core, with zesty acids, fine balance and cut and a long, complex finish. This is excellent!
