Category Archives: Savagnin

2012 Angullong The Pretender Savagnin

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Jeremy Pringle

What should we do with Australian Savagnin? This works well enough as a full-bodied fruit driven white. Brown pears, lemon, nuts, quinine and orange rind. Rounded and a touch warm but there is a line of acid. Full through the … Continue reading →

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2011 Kangarilla Road The Veil

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Jeremy Pringle

A small slice of Jura in McLaren Vale. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If your Albariño turns out to be Savagnin then mature the juice in oak barrels under a thin veil of flor yeast. This was intensely nutty when I … Continue reading →

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2010 Chapel Hill il Vescovo Savagnin

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Jeremy Pringle

McLaren Vale 13.0% Screwcap $20 A lean and linear version of Savagnin here. Out of the fridge it borders on neutrality but it warms up to reveal a nose of lemons, mandarins and orange blossom with a mere suggestion of … Continue reading →

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2010 Golding La Francesa Savagnin

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Jeremy Pringle

Adelaide Hills 13.5% Screwcap $25 Source: Sample Savagnin (pronounced sah-vah-NYAN, if that helps…) – what a saga. I recently spoke to the viticulturist half of a husband & wife wine producing team at Tasmania Unbottled. He had made a more … Continue reading →

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