Cloudbreak Sauvignon Blanc 2025
$28, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills
This is dry, fruity and roundly enjoyable. It works for its display of apple, pear and tropical fruit flavour – threaded only lightly with notes of cut grass – but it also works for its texture, and for the way it extends appreciably through the finish. It’s bang on for style, flavour and drinkability. 92 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.
