Teakle Sauvignon Blanc 2025
$24, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, The Peninsulas South Australia.
This Sauvignon Blanc is both pungent and intense. It doesn’t whisper the words Sauvignon Blanc in your ear; it puts a megaphone to it. It tastes and smells of lemongrass, passionfruit, sweat, mint and citrus, a steeliness then leading the wine out through the finish. It’s true to the Sauvignon Blanc variety, and satisfying. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
