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This wine, a modern type of French sauvignon, has intense varietal personality, suggesting tropical fruits, blackcurrants, grass and minerals. It tastes forward and fruity, refreshing and clean. Ralph Kyte-Powell

It’s cracking value. ... Tropical fruits and hay. Acidity gets a little stringy on the finish but it’s bright, flavoursome and different-enough to make you want to reach for more. Compelling in its category. Winefront.com.au

These characters intensify on the palate, opening with a fresh, upfront acidity of grapefruit and lime which provides an amazing backbone for the enticing flavours of green passionfruit, savoury herb scones, hints of spiced sourdough and a lovely lime sorbet sweetness. The structure is tight, directing these incredible flavours right to the back of your palate, leaving you with a crisp, clean finish showing just a hint of elegantly toasted French oak spice.

Dazzling, pristine green tinged straw. Distinctive lifted fresh Sauvignon fruit purity, aromas of fragrant gooseberries, herbaceous Thai basil and just cut green grass as well as complex hints ... High impact and mouth-filling with more zingy gooseberry fruit and fresh layers of mineral like flavour in the middle palate before a long zesty citrus tinged juicy fruit finish.

Brilliantly clear, the pale straw colour signifies how perfect our timing was. Pure Adelaide Hills aromatics leap out of the glass showing fresh cut grass characters, honeysuckle, jasmine and underlying tropical passionfruit. The journey along the palate is wondrously complex and fills the mouth with crisp melon, gooseberry and nettle, all the while maintaining a vibrant, zesty balance with Longview's hallmark of gentle refreshing acidity.

A fresh and lively sauvignon from one of the Hills’ masters, this has a composed amalgam of passionfruit, gooseberry, some sweet fresh herbs, grassy notes and citrus. The palate’s taught and savoury, with the latter setting it apart from the majority of others in this style.

Yes, this is the epicentre of Adelaide Hills sauvignon blanc, but its has the X factor big time. The fruit aromas and flavours are largely tropical, but there is an almost glossy mouthfeel on the tip of the tongue, the fruit flavours kicking in on the back-palate and finish, And yes again, it has nothing to do with Marlborough sauvignon blanc ... 96 points James Halliday Top 100 Wines

Granny smith apple, kiwi fruits and citrus blossoms make an enchanting perfumed nose. The palate also delivers with intense tropical fruits providing excellent fruit weight while nuisances of box hedge, cut grass and minerals provide interest and complexity. The cool vineyard site also allows good retention of natural acidity that is expressed in the minerality and persistence of flavour.

Some old French oak, wild yeast, time on lees, funk. Not your usual NZ sauvignon blanc. Excellent intensity. A tonne of wild character. Gravel, tropical fruit, sweat, earth, thistles, orange peels, sulphur. Has a slippery smooth coating to it, but pulpy passionfruity acidity refuses to be calmed. So intense it almost hurts. Excellent lingering finish. Armed and dangerous style of sauvignon blanc. In-your-face but remarkable quality. Rated : 94 Points WInefront.com.au

..... The flavours are complex and intense and reflect the wine’s aromatic characters. A small amount (5g) of residual sugar balances the tannins and phenolics and enhances the finish.
Roses and lychees with orange zest. Texture too – a little slippery with very nuanced phenolics from eight hours on skins. Purity and freshness matched to unforced complexity and a little seductive musk. That Gewürztraminer spiciness (ginger and white pepper) hangs around on the finish along with the fruit. The restraint and freshness of of the Riesling really is the perfect foil. 93 points Wine Will Eat Itself