Growers Gate Howard Vineyard White Wine Packs

Four wonderful whites all of which are good drinking now – no further cellaring required. We lead off with Curtis’ silver medal winning Riesling which is textural and packed with fruit. Growers Gate PG is easy drinking, with great texture and plenty of pear flavour and the Curtis Heritage Chard is crisp and linear with citrus, peach and honeydew melon. The Ted’s Place PG offers a lovely mix of pear and apple and ginger.

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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

The Growers Gate PG offers varietally appropriate pears and apples. Riposte's 'the Foil' SB is one of the most consistent and complex Sauvvies to come out of the Adelaide Hills, Deep Woods Margaret River SSB is a trophy winning stunner, floral and packed with snow pea, passionfruit and lemon curd. First Creek's Vermentino is world class, perfumed and replete with tropical fruits, citrus, minerality and more.

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Just a tick over $13 a bottle for these excellent PGs, all of which are drinking beautifully. Monterra, from the Adelaide Hills, has a gold medal in tow and offers crisp pears and green apple, bath powder, minerality and chalk. A stunner which you can drink any time over the next 5 years. The Growers Gate accents pear backed with a lick of lemony sweetness and an easygoing texture. The Ted's Place is prime drinking right now. We all loved it on the tasting panel - plenty of fruit and complexity here. Learn More