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.

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

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

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.

As ever, estate-grown, and exceptional value for money. Quartz-white; as pure a sauvignon blanc in the Adelaide Hills idiom as one could hope for: passionfruit, citrus and gooseberry trip along lightly, leaving the mouth fresh and clean thanks to crisp acidity. A harbinger of a great vintage. 92 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.

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.

The Adelaide Hills is recognised as one of Australia’s finest Sauvignon Blanc growing regions: the altitude, soils and weather patterns seem to draw the best from this variety and in 2013, I was lucky enough to take fruit from one of the finest Sauvignon Blanc vineyards in the region.
The 2013 Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc is exceptional. The warm, dry vintage was perfect for this variety and has resulted in a wine with intense flavour concentration, complexity and a great natural acidity.

Kiwi sauvignon blanc, “savvy” in the NZ vernacular, is hugely popular in Australia, but if you want to wave the flag and support our producers, some Oz vineyards do savvy every bit as well as our cousins across the ditch. Shaw + Smith’s admirable take on the variety is an Adelaide Hills benchmark that gets better each vintage. The 2014 offers zesty lemon-lime, tropical fruit, and light steely aromas that flow into a truly vibrant mouthful of juicy varietal flavour that’s persistent, fresh and tangy.  Ralph Kyte-Powell, A Wine for..., The Saturday Age, 6 September 2014