Thirty One Rows Sauvignon Blanc 2026
AU$25, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Marlborough/NZ.
Talk about more-ish. This is soft, fruity, well powered and refreshing. The intensity of fruit flavour here is excellent. It tastes of tropical fruit – zippy and fruit-sweet at once – with lemongrass, barley sugar and mango skin characters as whispers. This is bang on for style, mouthfeel, flavour and value.
91 points – Campbell Mattinson.
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.
