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  • Country ranking ?

    272
  • Producer ranking ?

    17
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    serve with seafood

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The Story

2018 is the 29th vintage that Shaw + Smith has made. It has become known as a benchmark for Adelaide Hills, and Australian, Sauvignon Blanc.

From our estate vineyards at Balhannah and Lenswood, complemented by fruit from a small number of highly valued growers. Hand picked. Cool fermentation in stainless steel followed by maturation on lees. Early bottling to retain freshness. Outstanding quality from a growing season that threatened, at ti...

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Wine Information

Typically it shows a pink grapefruit character, concentration and mid-palate texture, which reflect the carefully selected sites and hand harvesting during the small window of perfect ripeness. 2018 was a standout year. The growing season weather behaved well overall, giving us well-balanced acidity and good flavour development in the pink grapefuit, lavender spectrum.

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In an unguarded moment, Shaw + Smith winemaker Adam Wadewitz called 2014 ‘difficult’ in the Adelaide Hills, with poor flowering, uneven yields and a stop-start combination of intense heat and the odd downpour making life challenging.Still, if anyone can pull the rabbit out of a hat it is the Shaw + Smith, who I’d rate as one of the most professional wine craftspeople in the nation – and Wadders is right up there amongst the brightest stars in the industry. 
This is cleverly made. There’s passionfruit and a little melon Hills signature to kick things off, in an open, slightly grassy style. Maybe less tropical than usual. It tastes a little light and sharply drawn this vintage, but the acid is soft and not harsh – important for what looks like an earlier picked style. Clean, fresh, perhaps a little underpowered but everything packed in as it should be.Not a classic S + S Sauv, but a good outcome.

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Adelaide Hills, South Australia
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