2025 Worlds Apart Hope Forest Sauvignon Blanc

If you are looking for a standard "tropical fruit bomb" Sauvignon Blanc, you might want to keep walking. But if you are looking for texture, complexity, and a bit of wild energy, you have come to the right place.

Sourced from the Brackenwood Vineyard in Hope Forest (Southern Adelaide Hills), this wine is Louis Schofield’s rebuttal to the "overt obviousness" often seen in the variety. It is designed to speak of place rather than just simple fruit.

The winemaking is key to this shift in style: fermented wild, it starts with a lick of skin contact before moving to seasoned French barrels. This process builds a wine that is vivacious and lightly grippy, trading aggressive passionfruit notes for savoury elegance, balance, and a textural mouthfeel. It is Sauvignon Blanc with a serious, sophisticated edge.

95 points
"There’s intensity, a feeling of fruit matter, twinned with real vigour and flavour persistence. Very good."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)