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Gary Walsh92 points
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2019
- Brand Punt Road
- Cellaring Ready, but will Keep
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Airlie Bank Sauvignon Blanc 2019"A fairly vigorous fruit thinning was called for in 2019, with about 20% of th..."$19.99 -
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James Halliday92 points
- Variety Durif
- Vintage 2009
- Brand All Saints Estate
- Cellaring 10-15 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.2% Alcohol
All Saints 'Family Cellar' Durif 2009"The one-hat Terrace Restaurant makes this a must-stop for any visitor to Nort..."$54.99 -
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James Halliday95 points
- Variety Durif
- Vintage 2012
- Brand All Saints Estate
- Cellaring 10-15 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.2% Alcohol
All Saints 'Family Cellar' Durif 2012"The one-hat Terrace Restaurant makes this a must-stop for any visitor to Nort..."$50.00 -
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- Variety Durif
- Vintage 2013
- Brand All Saints Estate
- Cellaring 10-15 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.2% Alcohol
All Saints 'Family Cellar' Durif 2013"The one-hat Terrace Restaurant makes this a must-stop for any visitor to Nort..."$50.00 -
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James Halliday86 points
- Variety Durif
- Vintage 2008
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type Red
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- Variety Durif
- Vintage 2017
- Brand All Saints Estate
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.2% Alcohol
All Saints Durif 2017"A bouquet of violets and ripe berries.Firm and full bodied with a seriously t..."$28.00 -
- Variety Durif
- Vintage 2018
- Brand All Saints Estate
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.2% Alcohol
All Saints Durif 2018"A bouquet of violets and ripe berries.Firm and full bodied with a seriously t..."$28.00 -
- Variety Durif
- Vintage 2019
- Brand All Saints Estate
- Cellaring 5-10 Years
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.2% Alcohol
All Saints Durif 2019"A bouquet of violets and ripe berries.Firm and full bodied with a seriously t..."$32.99 -
- Variety Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintage 2020
- Brand Andre Dezat
- Cellaring 3-5 Years
- Wine Type White
- Alcohol Percentage 12.5% Alcohol
Andre Dezat Sancerre 2020"The DEZAT family is one of the oldest wine-growing families in Sancerre. Refe..."$54.99
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.