Picardy Levantine Hill Best Wine Deals

Sometimes only a chilled glass of Sauv Blanc will do. So here’s six exceptional examples for you to have a crack at... from Margaret River, Pemberton and the Adelaide Hills. Oatley’s Margs SBS picked up a Trophy and golds at the Royal Adelaide Wine Show and offers a beguiling mix of passionfruit, lime zest, white pepper and greenery. Picardy’s Sauv Blanc Sem (85% SB) is superb, with crisp fruit and great texture. No surprises that it has picked up a 96. Three distinct clones of SB are used along with 2 different yeast strains. On opening it seems soft and delicate but as it airs, minerality, guava, lime, passionfruit and all manner of complexities emerge. The Chain of Ponds SB is crisp and offers a lovely mix of greenery and passionfruit. The Riposte, made by the Legendary Tim and Nick Knappstein is textural, succulent and pungent, a joy to drink. Howard are major growers in the Adelaide Hills and supply substantial quantities of fruit to what are arguably the two best known producers of SB in the region. This, their own bottling, is of course excellent too. Finally the Cape Jaffa SB is also lovely with tropical fruits, citrus and more are at play. Learn More

6 brilliant Chardies, hand-picked by the tasting panel and ready for you to enjoy right now. A delicious, minerally and linear reserve from Eight at the Gate, bright zestiness from Artis, and the exceptionally delicate and stonefruit-laden Coldstream Guard from the Yarra Valley. The Curtis Heritage, which is more of a nod to Chablis, with its aromatics of citrus blossom rounded out with peach. Leconfield’s buttery beauty which is replete with stonefruit, tropicals, smoke and grilled nuts and First Creek’s delightfully medium bodied Hunter exemplar. 6 lovely Chardies, all ready to drink, right now. Learn More