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Bob Campbell MW95 points
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Cameron Douglas94 points
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Michael Cooper5 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2019
- Brand Astrolabe
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.5% Alcohol
Astrolabe Sauvignon Blanc 2019"Considered to be one of New Zealand's finest producers, Astrolabe have built ..."$26.00 -
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Bob Campbell MW95 points
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Cameron Douglas94 points
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Michael Cooper5 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2020
- Brand Astrolabe
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.5% Alcohol
Astrolabe Sauvignon Blanc 2020"Considered to be one of New Zealand's finest producers, Astrolabe have built ..."$26.00 -
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Bob Campbell MW95 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2021
- Brand Cloudy Bay
- Cellaring Drink Now
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.3% Alcohol
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2021"Intense and quite weighty sauvignon blanc with passionfruit, lime zest, goose..."$46.99 -
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Bob Campbell MW96 points
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Raymond Chan Wi19 points
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Andrew Graham95 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2013
- Brand Dog Point
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 14.0% Alcohol
Dog Point 'Section 94' Sauvignon Blanc 2013"Drinking great now - Will cellar well for 3-5 years."$37.99 -
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James Halliday95 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2019
- Brand Howard Park
- Cellaring Drink Now
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Howard Park Sauvignon Blanc 2019"With gay abandon, the aromas of this wine combine the polarities of Sauvignon..."$29.99 -
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James Suckling94 points
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James Halliday'96 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2021
- Brand Shaw and Smith
- Cellaring Drink Now
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 12.5% Alcohol
Shaw & Smith Sauvignon Blanc 2021"Hand-picked fruit, cool fermentation in stainless steel, maturation on lees a..."$29.50 -
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Huon Hooke95 points
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Mike Bennie91 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2019
- Brand Stefano Lubiana
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Stefano Lubiana Sauvignon Blanc 2019"Tasmania’s first and only certified biodynamic vineyard has been cultivating ..."$32.99 -
Sauvignon Blanc is a white grape, that has become incredibly popular, with increased plantings in Australia over the last 10 years. It grows best in the cooler wine regions.
Yarra Valley, Adelaide Hills, Margaret River, Orange in New South Wales and Tasmania are all regions which produce wonderful examples of Sauvignon Blanc. The coolest vintages have “grassy”, gooseberry characters, whereas, warmer vintages show more passionfruit flavour, but still with the trademark zingy acidity. In Margaret River, Sauvignon Blanc is often blended with Semillon, this creates a perfect partnership and a fuller style of wine. In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand's trademark grape.
Sauvignon Blanc is an important white grape in France, especially Bordeaux and the Loire Valley. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux, where it is blended with Sémillon to produce Bordeaux Blancs and Cru Classé White Graves. Elsewhere in Bordeaux, it is also blended with Sémillon, to produce the amazing dessert wines of Sauternes. In the Loire Valley and particularly on the chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé. The wines produced are very different to New World equivalents, they tend to be less pungent, more restrained, mineral with smoky, gunflint notes.
After initial problems, it is now grown very successfully in Chile. The wines are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character.