Ta_Ku is completely Kiwi, filled with pride about the treasures of the land and culture of its habitants, the legend and the lore. Pure waters and ancient soil are natural endowments for its graceful vineyards. Ta_Ku is is the embodiement of Marlborough and all that's special about New Zealand's indigenous charm, the vitality of its people and the pristine splendour of its sun drenched countryside, journeying across the Tasman, for you to enjoy, to savour and to share.

A celebration of Australia's great diversity in terroirs and clime, assembling two distinct regional expressions into a single varietal wine. Parcels are selected to impart complexity and flavour diversity rarely found within a single region, while preserving the integrity of each individual component. Margaret River contributes green apple and grapefruit characters, along with subtle grassy overtones. The Adelaide Hills add structure and length while bringing delicious tropical flavours, passionfruits and lychee.

The post modern style of Australian Sauvignon Blanc, effusive with aromatic herbaceousness, freshness and piquant tropical fruit on the bouquet, a generous palate and revitalizingly clean finish. Taylors have collated the ripest, most well endowed parcels of fruit from splendid Adelaide Hills vineyards. Components are treated to the most exacting vinification techiques, preserving the crisp expression of grapes in the vineyard for a wine that sings of spirited Sauvignon Blanc.

With its clean, green aromas and vibrant citrus, herbaceous characters, Sauvignon Blanc is the essential crisp and refreshing drink when served young and chilled. Taylor Ferguson have applied a secondary fermentation process to infuse the wine with a fine bead, develop yeast derived richness on the palate and add summery apple, squeezed lime and pear flavours. A revitalizing style of sparkler that's ideal for Al fresco, especially good seafood.

A crisp, fruit forward style from Sauvignon Blanc harvested off the estate Whitehills vineyard in Tamar Valley. Tamar Ridge have been recognized for the quality of their cool climate wines, the exclusive site enjoys pure water and clean air, well drained heavy soils and effective windbreaks. The weight of flavour, perfect balance and refined complexity makes this an engaging foodie's wine, very ready to enjoy today alongside your favourite faire.

Taltarni's vineyards are blessed by long, cool ripening seasons which encourage grapes to develop a beguiling spectrum of opulent varietal characters. Taltarni have taken the pick of fruit from the most best blocks, to fashion into a dynamic Sauvignon Blanc that's seamlessly integrated with a rich panoply of ripe fruit and green vegetable complexities. A match to grilled calamari or warm chicken caeser.

Made exclusively of Sauvignon Blanc, the trick is to set aside a few parcels of grape for extended skin maceration, infusing just the right amount of tannin complexity. Batches are treated to a wild, natural vinification at lower temperatures in French oak barrels, enhancing perfumery and palate richness, striking the perfect balance between upfront fruit character and textural largess, building structure and encouraging finesse. Herbal spice and delicate oak, gripping grapefruit acid, fashioned into the perfect aperitif, the cosmopolitan Fumé style.

The dedicated growers on Scotchman's Hill are heirs to a tradition of producing the finest white wine grapes. They attend to the Bellarine peninsula's premier terroirs, nurturing vines to sprout much of Victoria's most articulate fruit. The team have assembled harvests of the most amenable Sauvignon Blanc, to be vinified into a refreshing post modern style, brimming with citrus, bright herbaceousness and a touch of quenching minerality. An integrated and easy to appreciate, classic dry white, that's just excellent with pasta or Al fresco cuisine.

The western districts make the most flavourful, balanced and clean Sauvignon Blanc, to be found anywhere in Victoria. The arduous climes infuse grapes with succulent sugar esters, pristine, phenolic free, brimming with crystaline fruit characters. Summerfield aim at a wonderfully animate style of Sauvignon Blanc, distinctively Pyrenees, defined by its coquettish structure and long, succulent mouthfeel. Crisp and easy to enjoy, tropical stone fruits, lemongrass and greenery throughout, the palate is full, generous and fresh.

Long recognised in New Zealand and Australia for it's consistent production of vital Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, the rest of the world is now catching on, as Stoneleigh has been added to the winelist at London's prestigious Ritz. Stoneleigh's vineyards are located at the northern end of the Wairau Valley in close proximity to the mighty Wairau River. Often referred to as the Rapaura Series of soils, they are characterised by their relative youth, based on river silts and stones. Poor in nutrients and water retention, they yield intense fruit and vibrant wines.

Rob Dolan is a charismatic winemaker and towering sportsman to boot. At 6 foot 6, Rob acquired the nickname Sticks during his dual premiership for Port Adelaide. He ultimately pursued his passion for making great wine, working alongside some of the most accomplished names in the industry. Dolan settled on a tally of superb sites in the Yarra Valley from which to draw fruit for his self titled label. Citrus and stonefruits, jasmine notes and flor, guava and grapefruits, the greenness of snap pea, lemongrass and thyme.

Small batch, hand produced, single block Sauvignon Blanc, from 100% Certified Biodynamic vines planted to an old riverbed of auspicious gravelly loam soils, treated to the extravagance of an extended term over sedimentery solids in dinkum Australian oak. The propitious climes of temperate Tasi meet the fashionable fruit forward refreshers of La Vallée de la Loire. Lubiana breaks the shackles which proscribe the stylistic norm, layered and textural with the complexities of barrel age and gross lees, its delicacy and elegance brings Sauvignon Blanc to higher zen.

Squealing Pig Vineyard is located in Marlborough's Awatere Valley. Known for its mineral and textural styles of wine, Awatere produces quite a distinct, savoury Sauvignon Blanc compared to the tropical, pungent and fruit forward efforts of greater Marlborough. A very attractive aperitif wine to enjoy on its own, Squealing Pig's subtle complexities make it a serious partner with good food.

Squawking Magpie work to the belief that great wine can only be made from the finest fruit. Ever since their initial plantings of vine, Squawking Magpie have focused on intensive viticultural regimens to produce the most exemplary Sauvignon Blanc. A powerful, mouthfilling Reserve quality wine with fresh acidity, ripe melon and lime flavours, vibrant and fresh, offering more substance than most of its Marlborough peers.

We blame the booze. The whiff and the swill did us in and all that was left to do was to make more. In many ways the wines that weren’t worth the pull on the cork caused this as much as the wines that we will never have the pleasure of decorking again. From the original Pulp Fiction novel, there's no time like the present to dress up and get down. When there's no time to think, we move quickly and unconsciously towards the things we really like. As the hours of carouse unravel, like so much unnecessary clothing, you'll happily find yourself enjoying it more, and more and more!

From vines planted to the Sherwood family estate's Rowley Crescent, Stoney Range and Sandy Creek vineyards in Waipara Valley. Sherwood carries the name of the proprietor and reflects a commitment to the highest quality. A pure wine that's varietally focused, sourced from the best Marlborough sites and managed by devoted growers, a refreshing and mouth filling Sauvignon Blanc that's internationally acclaimed for its excellence and consistency. Match Sherwood to the freshest, white fleshed fishes, scallops or crab.

The wine which launched Sauvignon Blanc, Shaw + Smith and Adelaide Hills as a unique and distinctive genre of wine, defined by its moreish pink grapefruit lustre, lavender perfumery, concentration of clean fruits and vegetable crispness, its gorgeous mineral texture. The enduring excellence of Shaw + Smith begins in the vineyard, the pick of crop from estate parcels at Lenswood and Balhannah, fruit must be immaculate, hand sorted to retain nothing but the cleanest grapes. With each new vintage, Shaw and Smith set a higher benchmark in new world Sauvignon Blanc.

Seresin are very close to the soil which grows their grapes. Adherance to principles of environmental sustainability means organically grown, hand tended vines, raised on a cornerstone of working in harmony with nature. Vines that sprout berries exhibiting the distinctive expression of Marlborough are located in the cooler western end of Wairau Valley. Free draining soils and extended ripening conditions suit the style which is Seresin, minimal intervention allows the layers of flavour to evolve.

Secret Stone know from things Marlborough. Nothing but the choicest fruit will do, to be crafted by an award winning team into an intensely fragrant, generously proportioned wine with effusive fruit flavours and clean, lingering finish. No expense is spared in accessing the finest vineyards, retaining the best winemaking team, isolating the finest quality Sauvignon Blanc and applying the most adroit vinification techniques.

Norm Doole and Drew Dowie were growers who took the plunge into vinifying their own fruit and who met with immediate success. Enlisting the help of marketer Leigh Gilligan, legendary winemaker Brian Light and renowned designer Barrie Tucker, the fledgling Dowie Doole brand was established in the 1990s. Essentially a McLaren Vale operation, the Dowie Doole team have spared no expense in retaining the finest of the Adelaide Hills harvest, for an exquisite Sauvignon Blance of crispness, juicy fruit flavours and cleansing mineral finish.

From their base of operations in Geelong, Scotchmans Hill have trekked the Adelaide Hills and sailed across the Tasman in pursuit of the finest Sauvignon Blanc. As exciting for its flamboyance of tropical fruit as for pungent, green herbaceousness, serve chilled and enjoy alongside prawns, Thai chicken or yum cha.

One of Australia's most esteemed and enduring white wines, completely unoaked, a fresh and vital Sauvignon Blanc to be consumed in it's youth. Low yields and careful management in the vineyard translate into a wine of elegance, complexity and irresistible varietal charm. A lively wine of intensity and well defined cool climate Sauvignon Blanc characters, brimming with fragrant tropical highlights, vegetal, gooseberry and slate.

A lively wine with softness and approachability, well complemented to numerous food styles and dishes.

Saint Clair continue to deliver Marlborough's most internationally lauded Sauvignon Blanc. The winemaking team are on a perpetual odyssey, to isolate and retain Marlborough's finest harvests, capable of producing wines with intense regionality. A consistent outperformer, St Clair has claimed trophy for top New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc over £10 at the London Decanter World Wine Awards, gold medals and champion trophy at the Liquorland Top 1OO, an impressive 4 star rating by Cuisine Magazine and a breathtaking 5 Winestate stars.

Pioneer Block One lies just east of Blenheim township, it was once part of the Wairau flood plain and accumulated layers of idyllic, deep free draining soils over the millennia. This is the vineyard where Saint Clair discovered the remarkable quality of fruit which was to become the world famous Wairau Reserve. It is often one of the very last blocks to be harvested, its mineral intensity and rich salty finish makes a lengthy, memorable wine.

Fresh from the Rymill stable, fashioned exclusively from estate grown fruit, the Yearling is a vibrant Coonawarra that's absolutely perfect to enjoy right now. An alluring perfume and zesty palate showing exciting herbaceousness, fine citrus and tropical fruit flavours, reinforcing the reputation of Sauvignon Blanc as Coonawarra's essential varietal white wine. Crisp and appealing, a sassy Sauvignon Blanc, enjoy chilled, alongside anything fresh from the garden or the sea.

Rosemount continue to craft some of South Australia's most approachable Sauvignon Blanc. As contemporary tastes evolve, Rosemount have remained at the forefront with consistent improvements to the quality of their fruit and innovations in the way the wines are fashioned and presented. The Diamond Label Series are at the heart of Rosemount, as the team take aim to assemble parcels of Sauvignon Blanc from choice vineyards into a wine with an intensity of bright varietal fruit flavour, clean aromaticness and overall softness on the palate.

There are two superb high altitude sites in Carey Gully and Piccadilly Valley, which yield an extraordinary quality of Sauvignon Blanc. Knappstein take the top cut of each harvest, crushing the fruit for a long cool vinification, treating a batch to the added richness of oak barrel ferments for texture, complexity and weight. A highly contemplative style of Sauvignon Blanc, expressive of its masterful élevage while articulate of its Adelaide Hills provenance. Lead by an elegant passionfruit and floral nose, its long driving palate of intense fruit characters resolves on a clean and crisp, exquisitely balanced finish.

The Reilly name has been at the centre of Clare Valley popular culture for a century and a half, it now commands an inventory of the finest vineyards and brings vintages of the most outstanding wines to enthusiasts each year. Prime parcels of Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc are fashioned into the racy regional style, a freshly fragrant wine with captivating herbaceous perfumes, supported by ripe flavours of gooseberry, green vegetable and fruit of the tropics. A superb match to crisp skin chicken or piquant Asian inspired seafood recipes.

A frivolously labelled Sauvignon Blanc by an otherwise serious winery, Barking Mad has already created quite a name and following for itself. Designed to bring the sanity back into one's life, parcels of crisply flavoured grapes are sourced from low yielding vines in Adelaide Hills and Valley Clare. But Barking Mad? Some say it was inspired by Tessa the vineyard hound. Some claim it's about the winemaker's demeanour. Others suggest it relates to the price point for such a high quality wine. Whatever the reason we know you will enjoy Barking Mad.

By the illustrious Vavasour of Awatere, one of the protagonists of vigorously fruit driven Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.It's not just the grinding westerly winds or the imposing presence of Tapuae-O-Uenuku. Deep, rocky soils and arid climesall make a contribution to the inimitable character, flavour and texture of Vavasour's wines.

Redbox of Nillumbik are amongst the closest Yarra Valley wineries to Melbourne. The growers and winemaking team here know their vintages intimately and retain access to some of the finest Sauvignon Blanc found anywhere in Victoria. Undulating slopes and a myriad of aspects create a pallette of terroirs and mesoclimes from which to make personable wines. It is ultimately a team effort between growers and winemaker to construct the essential Yarra Valley Sauvignon Blanc. The quality of fruit grown in the vineyard is superb, the finished wine is even better.

Redbank have long been at the fore of Victorian high country viticulture, having established labels that continue to produce some of notheast Victoria's most enduring wines. The Long Paddock is a reference to the drovers of yesteryear, as they followed the course of creeks and rivers to quench their parched livestock. Long Paddock takes the pick of Sauvignon Blanc from superlative high altitude vineyards, terroir that's just right for aromatic whites, crafted to perfection in a vibrantly unwooded, drink now styling.

The frigid climes and inhospitable terroirs of Cromwell Basin are idyll for Sauvignon Blanc of defined Central Otago regionality. The combination of chilled winds and stony alluvial soils enthuse vines to yield small crops of parched and intensely flavoured grapes, brimming with vigorous fruit characters, while offering the balance and structure for the realization of bold white wines in suave old world styling. The Sauvignon Blanc of choice to accompany braised white meats, the freshest fried fish, or a gourmandise blanquette de lapin.

Ra Nui believe that the wine is in the grape, focus is primarily on the vineyard, everything that comes after is meant to capture and preserve quality of fruit. Grapes are grown to the time honoured traditions of healthy soils, ample sun and good old fashioned love of the job. Much of the harvest is picked by hand, to be treated to a combination of new and old world vinification techniques, the ultimate aim being being to achieve a Sauvignon Blanc as articulate as a cornucopia of freshly cut fruit, decidedly Marlborough in a glass.

The wines of Port Phillip are about pursuing a philosophy and revering a special place, respecting the land and preserving purity of fruit. Ultimately they represent the holistic accord between those who husband the vine and the fruit of the land itself, the unspoken compact that both should give to receive. Port Phillip is a generously flavoured Sauvignon Blanc that's blessedly at its very best while young and fresh, enjoy with goat's cheese and fetta, Al fresco or succulent white meat roasts.

Another exquisite effort from the marvelous Pike & Joyce property at Lenswood. Not the in your face style of overtly fruity Sauvignon Blanc, Pike and Joyce shows freshness and concentration, but also restraint, subtlety and poise. Unequivocally advancing the case that there are alternatives to Sauvignon Blanc which differ delightfully to the syrupy styles from across the ditch. A perfect match to seared fresh shellfish drizzled with herb butter sauce.