Forester EstateMargaret River Premium Sauvignon Blanc 2025
Dry, Medium Bodied style of Sauvignon Blanc
Margaret River, Australia
About this product
Dry, Medium Bodied style of Sauvignon BlancMargaret River, AustraliaOak maturation - 45% of the wine spent 5 months in French Barriques. 3% in new oak and the balance 1 and 4 year old oak.
Typical analysis - 13.5% Alc Vol. Standard drinks 8.0.
Colour - Pale straw-green.
Aroma -Intense, with a flinty, minerally aroma. There are fresh herbaceous characters of nettle, pea shell, and grass, along with pungent fruit characters of passionfruit and gooseberry. There’s an underlying smoky-spice note, with balanced, fresh oak characters that help to lift the fruit while adding complexity.
Palate -Medium-bodied, with a creamy texture and fine acidity. There’s a mix of mineral-cedar freshness with gooseberry, passionfruit, and guava, balanced by cut grass and spicy oak.
Food matches -Goats cheese salad with asparagus, scallops with pea puree.
Peak drinking - Drink now to 2028.
Viticulture -Our Sauvignon Blanc vines were meticulously managed to ensure a balanced crop and suitable canopy management. The 2025 vintage was a mild year for white grapes in Margaret River allowing plenty of time during January and February to ripen the fruit to our specification.
Winemaking -The fruit was harvested very early in the morning, then sent immediately to the winery for processing. 55% of the wine was fermented in stainless steel with a known yeast strain. The remaining wine was fermented in French barriques with 24% of the blend being fermented with wild yeast on medium to high solids. The final blend was put together in July 2025.
Storage and Bottling -Bottled under screw cap into a premium burgundy bottle in August 2025. After elevating the Sauvignon Blanc to the ‘Premium’ status within the Forester range in 2009, we have further increased the structure and complexity of the wine through barrel fermentation, partial wild fermentation and storageon lees.
Oak maturation - 45% of the wine spent 5 months in French Barriques. 3% in new oak and the balance 1 and 4 year old oak.
Typical analysis - 13.5% Alc Vol. Standard drinks 8.0.
Colour - Pale straw-green.
Aroma -Intense, with a flinty, minerally aroma. There are fresh herbaceous characters of nettle, pea shell, and grass, along with pungent fruit characters of passionfruit and gooseberry. There’s an underlying smoky-spice note, with balanced, fresh oak characters that help to lift the fruit while adding complexity.
Palate -Medium-bodied, with a creamy texture and fine acidity. There’s a mix of mineral-cedar freshness with gooseberry, passionfruit, and guava, balanced by cut grass and spicy oak.
Food matches -Goats cheese salad with asparagus, scallops with pea puree.
Peak drinking - Drink now to 2028.
Viticulture -Our Sauvignon Blanc vines were meticulously managed to ensure a balanced crop and suitable canopy management. The 2025 vintage was a mild year for white grapes in Margaret River allowing plenty of time during January and February to ripen the fruit to our specification.
Winemaking -The fruit was harvested very early in the morning, then sent immediately to the winery for processing. 55% of the wine was fermented in stainless steel with a known yeast strain. The remaining wine was fermented in French barriques with 24% of the blend being fermented with wild yeast on medium to high solids. The final blend was put together in July 2025.
Storage and Bottling -Bottled under screw cap into a premium burgundy bottle in August 2025. After elevating the Sauvignon Blanc to the ‘Premium’ status within the Forester range in 2009, we have further increased the structure and complexity of the wine through barrel fermentation, partial wild fermentation and storageon lees.
- TypeSauvignon Blanc
- Size750ML
- RegionMargaret River
- Current Vintage2025
- Standard Drinks8
- Alcohol Volume13.5%
- CountryAustralia
- StateWestern Australia
- Brand NameForester Estate
- Wine MakerKevin McKay and Todd Payne
- Food MatchFresh Cheese
- ClosureScrew Cap
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyMedium Bodied
Vintage 2025: Margaret River Wine Show 2025 - Silver. Ray Jordan WA Wine Review - 93 points.
Vintage 2025
93 points points
You know you're in a sauvignon blanc zone from the first time you take in the aromas, but then there's something else lurking there, and it's in the form of a partial barrel fermentation, which introduces a degree of complexity evident initially on the nose and then more profound on the palate. It adds complexity to what is a highly textural wine with vibrant fruit characters, giving it another layer and depth. The tropical fruit characters are still there, but that slightly creamy textural component really does bring it to life. Excellent wine and an alternative take on savvies. 93 points. Cellar: 5 years.
James Halliday
Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2024
92 points points Halliday Wine Companion
Given a third of the blend is fermented and aged a few months in French barriques and on lees, there’s texture within but it remains a racy, juicy style. Full of tropical fruit, passionfruit, feijoa, guava and plenty of lemony accents. It’s fresh and bright with lively acidity right through to the finish. Jane Faulkner 24 Feb 2025.
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