2020 Domaine A Lady A Sauvignon Blanc

The Sauvignon Blanc vines on the Domaine A vineyard were in great peril. Ruth Althaus asked her husband Peter to pull out the small amount of Sauvignon Blanc vines that were already established at Domaine A when they took ownership of the property, with a view to plant more Cabernet vines, as was the focus of their project.

Thankfully, Peter ignored this request and tended the vines in secret for a few years before revealing the wine to her. It was a brave, yet ultimately brilliant move.

And so, the Lady A was born.

It turned out to be Ruth's favourite wine in their esteemed range. It's now considered a benchmark for powerful, cellar-worthy Sauvignon Blanc in Australia and sits in rare air amongst the very finest white wines that this country has to offer.

95 points
"This wine is always a bit of treat, and this release is no exception."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 points
"A unique sauvignon that is picked ripe and built in the winery while having an underlying minerality. Delicious."
- James Suckling

About Domaine A

Domaine A's origins date back to the planting of the Stoney Vineyard in 1973, the oldest Pinot vineyard in the Coal Valley in Southern Valley.

But the main history starts with Peter and Ruth Althaus acquiring the Stoney Vineyard in 1989 - they’d been searching the southern hemisphere for the perfect cool-climate vineyard—an Antipodean answer to the great estates of France and Germany. The evolution of great Bordeaux-influenced red and white wines in this sunny part of the Apple Isle has been extraordinary.

Peter and Ruth recently passed the Domaine A baton onto David Walsh of Moorilla Estate and Mona fame, with the wines now being made Domaine A by Moorilla winemaker Conor van der Reest.