The Honeybomb Semillon Sauvignon Blanc is a punchy and textural expression of a Margaret River SSB. It is very much in the Devil's Lair playground, experimenting with a small percentage of oak and lees work to add complexity whilst respecting varietal aromatics and purity. Defined by a mineral edge (quartz comes to mind) and muddled lime with a zesty line and salivating acidity layered with elements of starfruit and nashi pear like texture captured from a small barrel ferment component.Devil’s Lair senior winemaker Ben Miller’s enthusiasm for wine is extraordinary. Growing up in the Hunter Valley, he was encouraged to be adventurous, curious and hard working. It was playing rugby in many of the world’s winemaking regions, travelling and working through New Zealand, France, Spain, Portugal, US, Italy, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale and Margaret River that sparked a further love of wine. He’s now settled in Margaret River where he has the 'opportunity to work on the land and create something that speaks of its place'.

Fresh tropical and passionfruit aromas and flavours are well supported by a dry crisp, acid backbone.

Forester Estate Semillon Sauvignon Blanc is a clean, fruit driven wine style showing herbaceous, citrus and lifted floral characters distinct to Margaret River. Those fruit characters are expertly meshed with a long, pristine and lip-smacking acidity that draws out the length of flavour wonderfully. Drink now with good company!

Forester Estate Sauvignon Blanc has clean aromas with underlying richness and varietal fruit characters of lychee and passionfruit. There's a subtle hint of blackcurrant along with lime and well integrated cedar oak. There is a herbaceous thread through the wine of pea shell and nettle along with underlying wood smoke. On the palate, full and textured with a rich creamy texture. There is lychee, lemon thyme, nettle, roasted red capsicum and passionfruit along with balanced cedar oak and wood smoke.

Voyager Estate in the Margaret River seem to have a mortgage on this style! An attractive herbal edge on the nose is supported by a lemony/minerally palate with terrific acid and length.

With perfect balance, elegant complexity and exquisite natural acid drive; the flavours reflect the nose sensationally, flowing seamlessly through the palate and finishing with salivating length and persistence.

This beautifully aged wine reflects the premium quality of the growing region of Bordeaux, in southern France, where these blends are called a white Bordeaux. Margaret River in Western Australia has a marked Mediterranean climate – fairly parallel, in fact, to that of Bordeaux – which is why these blends have been around since the infancy of discovery of the Margaret River wine region. This Sauvignon Blanc & Semillon blend displays a good acid profile with a percentage given treatment and time in oak, which offers structure, longevity and potential. If you drink this blind you would not guess its age; instead you can appreciate a wine full of character.This producer is renowned for holding wines back ready for release for this very reason. This graceful SBS is no exception. Here is an opportunity for you to sample a well-structured mature wine - grow and develop your palate. Good acid profile with a percentage given treatment and time in oak, which offers structure, longevity and potential. If you drink this blind you would not guess its age; instead you can appreciate a wine full of character. Therein lies the beauty of a well-made wine and the journey of our palate development. Explore & Expose your palate, it is always worth it. The best part is to watch a wine develop and believe me this wine isn’t over the hill yet, it has another few years to go. That’s another plus point of a well-made wine: you can keep the conversation going. Its sister from 2005 is still going strong.

Grape variety - 100% Sauvignon Blanc Oak maturation - 56% of the wine spent 5 months in French Barriques. 11% in new oak and the balance in 1 and 4 year old oak. Colour - Pale straw-green. Aroma - Complex with underlying fruit punch. The wine opens with smokey lanolin, chalk, talcum powder and subtle cedar oak. There are ripe fruit characters of gooseberry, papaya, blackcurrant, lychee and roasted red capsicum. Palate - Rich with a creamy texture and balanced acidity providing good drive to the palate. There are ripe fruit flavours of lychee, papaya and gooseberry with cedar oak and a wood smoke complexity. The finish is firm with a long passionfruit finish. A complex Sauvignon Blanc made in a Fumé Blanc style. Food matches - Goats cheese salad with asparagus, scallops with pea puree. Peak drinking - Drink now to 2026. Viticulture - Handpicked fruit from the open lyre trellis “Home Block” vineyard went into this Sauvignon Blanc. The 2022 vintage was a warm year for white grapes in Margaret River allowing plenty of time during January and February to ripen the fruit to our specification. Winemaking - The fruit was harvested very early in the morning, then sent immediately to the winery for processing. 44% of the wine was fermented in stainless steel with a known yeast strain. The remaining wine was fermented in French barriques with 49% of the blend being fermented with wild yeast on medium to high solids. The final blend was put together in July 2022. Storage and Bottling - Bottled under screw cap into a premium burgundy bottle in August 2022. After elevating the Sauvignon Blanc to the ‘Premium’ status within the Forester range in 2009, we have further increased the structure and complexity of the wine through barrel fermentation, partial wild fermentation and storage on lees.

The John Tate name is synonymous with the Margaret River, legendary for his innovative spirit. He, along with his much loved community, developed the region as a beacon for premium winemaking recodnised for a quality all around the world. This Semillon Sauvignon Blanc is a perfect representation of the rhythm of Western Australia with a combination of crisp clean white, sunshine and the whispering of the wind through the vines to create Torch Song. This vibrant wine has citrus and floral notes, with a subtle grassy taste and clean finish. Delicious with a light seafood meal.

Fresh, light-bodied with flavours of passion fruit and a crisp acidity. Clean and lively on the palate.