A fruit driven style supported by subtle oak ferments and Sur lie maturation, crafted by one of the Pemberton region's most conspicuous and artisanal family operated estates. Salitage retain traditional winemaking techniques, delivering complexity of aroma and flavour through clonal diversity, lees contact and French oak treatments. A style suited to those looking for full aromaticness and presence of palate in West Australian Chardonnay.

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.

Established to deep red basalt soils by family Shelmerdine in 1985, Lusatia Park at Woori Yallock in the upper reaches of Yarra Valley, is a very demanding site. Vines are all closely planted and require a lot of work but the quality of harvest is spectacular, consistently yielding vintages of urbane, mineral infused Chardonnay. Fruit is all hand picked and whole bunch pressed, treated to full malolactic and battonage. Its voluble palate of oatmeal, almonds and brioche, is tightly structured, taintless and refined, defined by its crystal elegance and briny, lingering finish.

Valley Clare is renowned for the gentle nature and refinement of its Riesling, generous yet elegant, what differentiates it from other regions are the dry, hot summer days and cool, crisp nights which contribute to the intensity of flavour. Hand crafted from grapes grown to the elevated terroirs on Smyth and St Clare vineyards, picked off dry grown vines planted to rich red loam overlays deep limestone, a winsome Riesling style of lifted florals heralding an enriched palate of citrus, honey and lime followed by crisp granny apple acid on the finish.

What fine Riesling Clare Valley does make, internationally recognized for wines of immaculate fruit character and delicate pastoral charm. Reillys manage many of Clare Valley's most exquisite vineyards, they bring a range of the most satisfying and approachable wines to enthusiasts with every vintage. Superior parcels of Riesling, picked off the prestigious Smyth and St Clare vineyards, planted to propitiously elevated aspects in the premier viticultural precinct of Watervale, are fashioned into a lifted floral wine with crunchy green apple citrus flavours, summer blossoms and winsome honeysuckle notes.

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.

The idyllic hillsides of Langhe are the most felicitous winegrowing climes in Piedmont, amongst the finest viticultural precincts in all Italy, it has been this way for millennia. Alfred Prunotto established a peerless reputation for quality by isolating and retaining the most exquisite sites, his heirloom vineyards continue to outperform. Harvests of Arneis from splendid sites in the communes of Monteu Roero and Montaldo Roero, Monta and Vezza d'Alba, are assembled into an immaculate wine of refined structure, comely bouquet and pristine, engagingly flavourful palate.

From a single parcel of late ripened Pinot Gris, planted to a steep half hectare block on Prophet's Home Vineyard. The recipe for making Vin de Paille dates back to 800BC, grapes are selectively hand picked onto racks and dried in the loft of a barn for several weeks, slowly whole bunch pressed and treated to thirteen months of ferment through the action of wild indigenous yeasts. A beguilingly layered and complex wine of extraordinary freshness and imposing structure, only sixty dozen bottles are made with each vintage.

An assemblage of parcels Pinot Gris from the Home and Rocky Point vineyards, two warmer sites of Central Otago which yield a magnificently aromatic Pinot Gris. Hand picked grapes are whole bunch pressed and treated to an Alsace style of vinification, wild yeast ferments in small vessels followed by an extended term of age on sedimentery lees for texture and palate richness. Listed on Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck winelist and Winner Air New Zealand Fine Wine, Prophets Rock Pinot Gris is defined by its wonderful quince perfumes, mineral structure and remarkable freshness.

Prophet's Rock are a member of Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand, the aim is to make the most articulate Central Otago wines in the most natural way, from fruit grown to an environmentally balanced vineyard. There's a single hectare of Riesling at Rocky Point vineyard, planted to opportune schist rock soils, it receives a lot of attention from the devout vineyard team. Yields are extremely low, averaging only 300 cases per vintage. A wild yeast ferment in small vessels and a term of age on sedimentery lees makes a structured Riesling style of vibrant floral citrus over strong underlying minerality.

Pressing Matters attenuate their Riesling with supple variations around the time of picking, vinification temperatures and completion of ferments. Here's the perfect level of sweetness to titillate and excite the most discerning enthusiast. Just nine grams residual sugar are enough to enhance the palate with richness and complexity, add ripeness to the flesh and perfumes to the bouquet of juicy fruit. Led by its lovely floral nose, the supple touch of nectar softens the purse of lime lemon, making R9 the perfect partner to seafood, oven baked recipes or succulent white meats.

A mix of Riesling clones, D2V3 and 198GM, F8V13 and 239GM are planted on their own rootstock at a density of 5000 vines per hectare. Medium sweet dry at 69 grams residual sugar, its bouquet of florals and honeysuckle, oranges and lime precedes a succulent palate in perfect balance, candied apple flavours and white peach are balanced by divine minerality. Pressing Matters are also significantly lower in alcohol than most Australian Rieslings, the intense fruit flavours are balanced by an amazing natural acidity. The Riesling of choice to accompany crayfish or delicately sauced marron.

Pressing Matters are inspired by the Mosel style, fashioned to reflect and optimize the outstanding qualities of which Tasmanian Rieslings are capable. Greg Melick has been an avid consumer of the world's finest wines for decades, his own cellar is filled with first growths and he has spent many years touring the world's great vineyards. He is also a wine judge with twenty years national and international experience. Pressing Matters R139 is the lusciously sweet style of late picked Riesling, finished to 139 grams residual sugar, ideal for full flavoured consomme or the richest desserts.

Greg Melick is Tasmania's most senior barrister, he carries rank in the Australian Reserves and nurtures a penchant for fine Burgundy. A consuming desire to make his own wine led him to a northeasterly slope along Tasmania's Coal River, fourteen remarkable hectares of well drained viticulture which had previously been used for grazing. Yields are kept very low and Melick's Rieslings are finished at four different levels of residual sugar, R0 being bone dry, simply superb for haute cuisine, very much in the timeless styling defined by the savoury classics of Alsace and Mosel.

The windsept climes around Portsea Estate are heaven sent for the production of stately Chardonnay, defined by their elegant structure and juicy, maritime minerality. The terroirs here are made so highly auspicious by a sub strata of extensive limestone deposits, overlaid by a legacy of free draining, calcareous humus soils. Delicate stone fruit aromatics and citrus spice, made savoury by slate mineral richness and a term of toasty French oak, Portsea's refreshing acidity carries the fruit with finesse, Mornington Chardonnay of wonderful length and fine silky textures.

Port Phillip Estate builds on the superb cool ripening conditions of Mornington to craft beautifully flavoured Burgundian styles of wine. The viticultural program of Port Phillip at Red Hill on the Mornington peninsula produces low yields of high quality Chardonnay, which best display the flavour intensity of such an exceptional site. An exquisitely balanced and structured cool climate Chardonnay, with creamy grapefruit characters up front and supple oak very much in the background.

There are two places of the most profound provenance along Coal River Valley called Belmont and Richmond, just a short drive northeast of Hobart. Both are a part of the early Australian experience, places of great historical import, sites that were selected during first settlement on the basis of their fertile endowments and promise of pastoral opulence. The vineyards Cooinda Vale and Butchers Hill were trained to yield a restricted harvest of the most exclusive Tasmania Riesling. Its prominent nose of indulgent perfumes, white jasmines, lemon zest and peach, a mesmerisingly mandarin palate, moreish and mineral.

The textural excitement and arcadian funk of a mostly whole bunch pressed Pinot Grigio. A minor part of the harvest is separately picked and destemmed for twenty days of ferment on skins, gently hand plunged every other day for a modicum of extraction. Batches are pressed off skins and assembled into the finshed wine before a requisite spell of maturation on fine lees. Nashis, pears and bright persimmon spice, her palate is plush and generously fleshed but held firm through fine grape tannins and lacy acids, mouthfilling of pears, applejack and aromatic white floral.

From parcels of toothsome Tasi Traminer, selectively harvested off the pick of fully mature vines. Bunches are destemmed and treated to an overnight soak before a course of well chilled ferments on gross solids. A stretch of rest on fine sedimentery lees tightens the palate and softens the tangy white grape tannins. The adorable auras of rose petal, pot pourri and fragrant caravan spice, juicily ripe quinces, orange fruit gums and a beam of sunshine. It's the topical tryst of Traminer that's full of flesh and bedecked with oodles of more moreish Turkish delights.