Savagnin Wines

Savagnin is a very curious Southern European variety very closely related to Traminer (it is know also as White Traminer). It’s renowned more for ‘flor’ sherry styles of wine where it is picked very late in the season. In recent years it is more o...

Savagnin has had a bit of a PR crisis in its short evolution on the oz wine scene. It started off with winemakers believing they were making Albarino only to be told it was actually an obscure grape called Savagnin. After a quick name change we ar...

Light yellow colour. Green herbal aromas, fresh and crisp, with a light, peppery, grassy palate - fresh and appetising with a dry and rather peppery tang on the aftertaste.

Light to medium yellow, bright colour. Strong oak aroma: dominating. 'Milk powder' notes, too. The palate is broad, soft and dry and slightly flattened by the oak. It remains fairly straightforward in flavour, but the balance, length and softness ...

Yeasty, young wine aroma, traces of lemon and lime, but not a lot of fruit character. Light and simple, sweetness and lolly-like freshly fermented aromas and flavours. Quite short on the palate. Very simple, basic, dry white wine, but no faults.

Very light yellow colour. Edgy, acrid, acetate-tinged aroma, building a hint of pear. Light and soft, rounded and smooth on the palate. Fairly simple, basic quaffing wine, but it's clean and dry on the finish and I like the texture

Restrained, delicate white wine with low alcohol lightness. Fresh, soft palate with a near-dry finish and crisp minerality.

Very light yellow/green colour. Vaguely orange juice aromas, strange and cosmetic scented, possibly slightly botrytised. The palate is disjointed and overall rather hollow, and falls quite short.

Light yellow/green colour. Fresh grassy aromas reminiscent of cut-green capsicum or sliced radish. There's a bracing peppery greenness throughout the wine, boosted by zesty acidity on the forepalate. Peppery and cucumber aspects that remind of gru...

Light yellow colour, with a vegetable-soup aroma. The palate is very light, lean and tangy with a slightly hollowness and shortness of finish. Very bizarre veggie flavours. But it has a crisp, clean, dry and appetising finish with a peppery after-...

Light yellow/green colour. A fresh clean and straightforward aroma, with a gardenia-like note. Crisp, light, tangy palate with a refreshing clean finish and aftertaste. Well-made, attractive white wine.

Rob Dolan has done a clever job of building weight and texture in to young vine savagnin, thanks to barrel fermentation and lees ageing. The oak is seamlessly melded, drawing out a long finish of finely textured structure and soft acid line. The f...

Quite a waxy nose, with green almond notes, lemon oil and fresh-cut apples. The palate delivers terrific concentration, really luscious sweet fruit flavours here, no sugar though - just terrific concentration and ripeness. Nectarines, and rockmelo...