Savvy blancs: Australia’s Top 20 Sauvignon Blancs
Love it or hate it, sauvignon blanc is Australia’s top choice white wine. Or any wine, actually. And the biggest sellers come from across the Ditch in what Australian winemakers bemoan as a Sauvalanche that engulfs local offerings. Luckily for them, Kiwi sauvvies struggle to make our lists thanks to a mathematical handicap arising from their smaller and fewer wine shows. Still, local sauvignons shouldn’t be discounted. Some are starting to score big on the Australian wine show circuit. With just a few shows left to report this year, we’ve put together our interim list of the Top 20 sauvignon blancs in Australia this year. And, just in case you’re wondering, our top Kiwi – which sits outside the Top 20 – the one we quietly picked last year as that country’s best: Leefield Station. Australia’s deepest and freshest list is drawn from nearly 2000 sauvignon blanc scores. Here it is:
| 1 | Devils Corner Sauvignon Blanc 2016 |
| 2 | Watershed Premium Wines Senses Sauvignon Blanc 2016 |
| 3 | Rosily Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 4 | Brown Brothers 18 Eighty Nine Sauvignon Blanc 2016 |
| 4 | Lindemans Bin 95 Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 6 | Nepenthe Petraea Sauvignon Blanc 2016 |
| 7 | DeBortoli La Bossa Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 8 | Miles From Nowhere Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 9 | DeBortoli Deen DeBortoli Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 10 | Sidewood Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 11 | Nepenthe Altitude Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 12 | Millbrook Winery Regional Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 13 | Bird in Hand Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 14 | Deep Woods Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 15 | Chateau Yaldara Foundations Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 16 | Berrigan Mt Benson Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 17 | Wolf Blass Gold Label Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 18 | Chain of Ponds Black Thursday Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 19 | Berrigan Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |
| 20 | Shottesbrooke Expression Series Sauvignon Blanc 2017 |