Sauvignon Blanc

Great Southern

Sauvignon Blanc

A wonderful example of the fume style. Doesn’t fall into the trap of overdoing the oak use, resulting in a wine that is perfectly balanced and seamlessly structured. The oak sits comfortably within the fruit. Nice touch of lemon meringue with a dollop of cream on the palate. A keen acidity sustains a long finish. First-rate example of this distinctive...

Great Southern

Sauvignon Blanc

A pure and fragrant wine with the usual gooseberry and lightly crunchy passionfruit and tropical flavours balanced with a light snow pea citrus tang. Really zingy fresh palate makes this perfect for summer sipping by the pool.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This distinctive wine shows what can be done with sauvignon blanc in Margaret River. It’s been one of the best wines from Streicker for some years. The colour has a faint greenish hue. Aromas of grapefruit and lime with a little lemon butter emerge immediately. The palate shows a careful use of 33% new French oak and time in barrel...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

You're getting some pretty sassy savvy for this price. I’s always great value and very good but in years like this is lifts into another level. Crisp and crunchy with lively lemon and gooseberry nuances. The textural complexity comes from some time in barrel with regularly lees stirring. Works so well.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

I have to say I think this is the best Art Series savvy yet released. It combines the beautiful aromatic nances evident immediately with a beautifully crafted textural palate. The palate is sublime with its rich intensity and centration of fruit lifted and revealed with a minerally acidity. That texture comes from 30% barrel fermentation in one-year-old French oak barriques...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Cliff Royle grabs the fruit from the cooler climate at Karridale. The result is a wine that retains its fresh linear characteristics but then with further winemaking influence through wild fermentation in oak and tank it strikes at another level of complexity. The aromas have a distinctive light stone fruit, lychee and citrus character. Beautifully weighted palate with texture and...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is a completely engaging savvy that uses lees influence rather than oak to build complexity and interest in that palate. It's crunchy and zingy with a fine acidity elevating the finish. A little passionfruit and gooseberry burst from the bouncy palate. That textural feel and acidity should allow it to age rather well in the medium term.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This has been one of the best and most distinctive wines Woody Nook make and I am a big fan. It's sauvignon blanc fermented in oak with wild yeasts, with monthly lees stirring over seven months. The technique builds on the excellent fruit intensity creating a wine of richness and texture while retaining that natural fruit lift of the savvy....

Great Southern

Sauvignon Blanc

The interesting thing about this savvy from Albany is the use of lees stirring. A regular weekly program of lees stirring has built in texture, complexity and further richness to create a really attractive style that combines the natural zesty fruit freshness with an extra level of intrigue. Crisp and long palate with plenty of those snow pea gooseberry flavours.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Oh, wow. Wait till you get your lips around this little guy. Crunchy vibrant fresh tropical fruit intensity strikes immediately. Loads of zippy passionfruit, lemon zest and a little gooseberry edginess. Has a lively crisp acidity to drive the palate through to a long finish. Ready to go.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Fruit simply bursts from the glass. It's a perfect example of the quality of the 23 vintage. Loads of fresh tropical fruits with a neat mix of passionfruit and guava with varietal gooseberry coming from the savvy. Has a nice palate texture. Super drinking in the next couple of years.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

So delicate yet with so much flavour. This is a wonderful product of the '23 vintage. Loads of fragrant tropical aromas with a dash of citrus. But the key is a little bit of barrel maturation which takes it to another level of interest and appeal. It's just a tweak but it works beautifully.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is simply a gorgeous current drinking blend that shows the admirable virtues of these two varieties from Margaret River in a good season where fruit concentration was a feature. Has that delightful mix of passionfruit and other tropical guava infused tropical characters. It's a pure unoaked wine that is perfect for current drinking.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Such a good year for white varieties and this consistently first-rate wine has delivered again, but with the addition of even more natural crunchy vibrant fruit thanks to the vintage. The palate is more intense than previous vintages but still with that structure and precision that comes with the approach of using a combination of semillon and sauvignon, with a...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is an exquisite savvy that gets a little oak treatment to add another layer of texture and rich mouth feel. Yet, it retains all that bright fresh gooseberry, nettle-like fruit that skips across the palate to a long crunchy finish.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon blanc that takes you into another zone. Full malolactic fermentation contributes to its rich generous creamy texture while the use of oak, with about 6% new, adds a defining lift through the palate. The nose offers all manner of things from melon, spices and pear with a varietal gooseberry note. On the palate you get into even more, with...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Crunchy and alive savvy, a variety that Leeuwin have always handled very well. There's a pineapple stone fruit character in here. Has a dry finish. It's punchy high energy savvy that is best drunk in its early years. It's quite a wine for the price. Has excellent depth of flavour. Sits within the herbaceousness and tropical characters without either really...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is quite a tightly framed sauvignon blanc showing excellent textural and flavour. There is clearly some barrel fermentation character in here contributing to its highly textural feel, which is held with admirable restraint. This has a more traditional European feel. There's 30% barrel with more one-year-old Bordelaise coopered oak. Some battonage works on the power and concentration of the...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Punchy, bright savvy displaying all that crunchy vibrancy you want in this variety but with a controlled restraint. Slightly muted tropical fruit with guava and faint passionfruit influences. There is a creamy mouth feel which appeals.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

The profound impact of partial barrel fermentation is evident immediately on the nose. It creates something quite different from your standard savvy sending it into another dimension. It's a generous wine of great flavour but the balance between the oak and pure fruit ensures it maintains its varietal integrity.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is the style that became a benchmark for Margaret River back in the day. And it still has a place with its lively fresh as a daisy tropical fruit and herbaceousness providing appealing current drinking. It's fruity and pure with a zingy acidity.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

The thing about Pym's wines is texture. And this super expressive savvy displays that character perfectly. It's a bright and punchy little number but not the modern fruit bomb. It's layered and loaded with a mix of tropical fruit delivered with a creamy rich palate feel. The finish shows a crunchy chalky minerality. This is the type of savvy I...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This distinctive wine has been a favourite of mine for some years. This one shows a little less overt oak and consequently is a more balanced wine. The lemony oak and lightly tropical fruit have an infusion of lemon zest to lift with a little of that fresh lychee character adding further complexity. It's a beautiful wine with cellaring potential.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Just a little barrel fermentation has transformed this from the normal fruit-bomb style into a wine of sophistication and style, while still allowing the punchy savvy fruit to display its virtues. Typical characters of passionfruit, gooseberry and a little snow pea are lifted with a little of the lemony oak influence. A really attractive wine to drink while it is...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Everything and everything in its place. This is a wonderful blend of sauvignon blanc and semillon, of which 74% of the savvy is matured for six months in new French oak. But here's the thing, the oak just sits patiently in the background without ever intruding, but still playing a role. Displays a pristine purity and vitality on the nose...

Pemberton

Sauvignon Blanc

Crunchy apple and pear characters burst from the glass. This is savvy with a little extra, which comes from the partial barrel fermentation. Gee, it makes quite a difference, transforming that bright and fresh fruit savvy into a wine of great sophistication, but still a lot of fun.

Pemberton

Sauvignon Blanc

A beautiful savvy from the Channybearup vineyard in Pemberton. Made in the fume style which means natural fermentation with maturation in oak for four months. There's a nutty fruit-driven aroma with a decent splash of citrus. The palate is generous and intense with a degree of complexity you expect from this fume style.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Finely balanced and pure savvy from Margaret River. Has a crunchy vibrancy with a minerally lift. Plenty of medium weight but highly intense tropical fruits balanced by a lemony, cut grass offset. Has a juicy and crunchy finish with that lip-smacking acidity.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Captures the perfect conditions of the ‘23 harvest. Crunchy and vibrant gooseberry and citrus merge to create a wine that screams for current drinking. It's juicy and lively with a fresh zingy finish. A faint flinty edge completes a very good wine.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

A delightful example of this Margaret River style. Fresh and fruity with a racy acidity sustaining life through the tropical fruit-laden palate. A squeeze of lemon on the finish and there you have it – a wine ready to go.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

An interesting wine that offers a lot more than your simple sauvignon blanc fruit bomb. In fact the overt fruitiness is muted and instead you get more layers and intrigue from the combination of mandarin, spices and meal. It all comes from a small amount of oak which transforms it into something quite special.

Great Southern

Sauvignon Blanc

This is a style that I like to see after a couple of years in bottle and this one shows just why that is important. An excellent example of the fume style that comes from France's Loire. This one had been perfectly handled with the oak infusion never intruding and sitting comfortably as a complement to the fruit. It's sauvignon...