Is it from Margaret River, classicaly fruit driven and rejuvenatingly dry? you bet! Xanadu were one of the regional pioneers who made the Sauvignon Semillon blend so chic. The classic dry style of Margaret River white, offering wonderful purity of complex fruit character, a lean crisp acidity and refreshing mineral finish. A fluency in the production of this wonderfully appealing accord makes Exmoor the starting point, when seeking out a revitalizing white wine to accompany every cuisine and all good food.

On the rolling slopes of Xanadu, vines flourish in the rich, free draining gravel soils, fed by an abundant supply of pristine water and sheltered by forests of magnificent marri trees. The site was chosen for its propensity to experience near perfect ripening conditions, beautiful indian summers with cool nights and clear warm days. The vines deliver an exceptional quality of Chardonnay, which Xanadu have fashioned into a generous, forward drinking wine. Natural ferments are encouraged, lees battonage is essential, infusing added complexity and charm.

Xanadu's salubrious vineyards are at the heart of Margaret River's most prestigious viticultural precinct. Warm growing seasons with cooling sea breezes create the perfect maritime growing climes. It is here that Chardonnay takes on an added dimension that's unique to Margaret River. More concentrated and more complex, more viscous and more tangy, without being weighty or cloying. The voluptuous fruit lends itself to wild yeast ferments and luxurious lees regimens, Xanadu's award winning team are masterful at both.

Boodjidup Vineyard Viognier, the old growers trick of slicing a cane of bunches off the vine and setting the whole branch aside to dry and shrivel as the berries become engorged with flavour. The deliciously desiccated grapes are crushed and cold soaked to rehydrate the raisined fruit, pressed and sent for a month of vinification at a cool 15°C. Ferments are arrested to retain all the moreish sweetness and extraordinary complexity of cane cut Viognier. Apricot nectars, mango and lychee, her mouth watering lemon honey drop juicyness persists through to a wickedly flavourful finish.

Xabregas are all about fastidious vineyard management and exacting vinification techniques. There are no compromises in the pursuit to create the defintive Mt Barker Sauvignon Blanc. Artisan focuses on balancing the distinctive flavour profile of Sauvignon Blanc with the complexity of new oak, whilst maintaining structure over a fine boned acidity. The wine is treated to a laborious lees stirring batonage while it ages, barrel ferments contribute to the vigorous complexity and perfect integration of oak, striking the ultimate balance between vibrant fruit and artisanal styling

The Xabregas Mount Barker vineyards enjoy a microclime that's somewhat similar to some of Europe's great winegrowing districts. Riesling is afforded a great deal of respect as a grape and generally the winemaking influence is minimal, to preserve the aromatics. Artisan Riesling is the antithesis. The aim is to interact with the precision of Riesling's acidity and flavour to add complexity and most importantly texture, without overpowering the delicate fruit.

The Wilyabrup subregion of Margaret River is widely acclaimed by industry pundits as the source of Australia's finest Chardonnay. Woodland's consuming ambition is to create wines which emulate the great vineyards of the world. There is less than a hectare of low yielding Chardonnay at Woodlands and output is highly limited. Woodlands is produced exclusively from Mendoza, the clone that made Margaret River famous for Chardonnay. A luxurious regimen of lees stirring and new oak fermentation adds mouth filling textures and rich complexity.

Hand picked off a precious hectare of vines, planted to a felicitious bequeath of deep loam topsoils over clay, along the crest of a southerly slope at the very heart of the Woodland vineyards. Grapes are shunted up the hill to the Woodland wineworks for immediate pressing, wild indigenous yeast ferments and ten months lees stirring battonage in fine oak. Opulent yet refined, fragrant of chamomile and honeysuckle grapefruits, abundant with orchard characters, roasted hazelnuts and maritime salinity, a pebble and oyster shell minerality which conjures up tradewinds and briny tropical seas.

Australia is blessed by the most fortuitous microclimes to assemble vital, well rounded and refreshing Sauvignon Blanc Semillon blends. The quality of Semillon is critical to the finished wine, providing both framework and zing. Wild Oats is bright, zesty and quenching, exhibiting crisp fruit flavours and herbal complexity on a well rounded yet lighter palate. An excellent poolside refresher and fine accompaniement to good seafood or cheese.

Wignalls were established 1982 after investigations into the local geography by founder Dr Bill Wignall. Results showed Albany's growing conditions were virtually identical to some of the great terroirs in France. Wignalls believe that terroir is the main reason for the remarkable quality of their wines. Attention to detail and a sophisticated trellis system to maximise sunlight and air circulation, greatly assist in achieving a superior quality of fruit. Fashioned to the statuesque styles of the great Burgundian Cru aged in the finest French oak.

A collation of parcels grown to the balmy, maritime windswept vineyards at Albany, near Two Peoples Bay. Treated to the old world style of French oak barrel ferment and a course of maturation in the way of Loire Valley's Fume Blanc, a sensational, mouthfilling accord of Semillon and Sauvignon fruit, engagingly complex and wickedly balanced. Distinctive cut capsicum characters along with delicate citrus and floral notes, gently spiced, lemongrass and slate over a whisper thin wafer of milky, thistle, cypress oak.

Pure elegant Chardonnay, taught, terrific and trim, with a sense of West Australian vibrancy, an exemplar of the outstanding potential that Great Southern represents as a winegrowing region. The idyllic growing climes of Mount Barker, restrained yields, exacting standards of viticulture and an artisanal vinification are what make West Cape Howe a truly memorable experience. The most stylish parcels of Chardonnay are reserved for Styx, a clean textural wine with effusive citrus character and attractive weight of fruit before a wonderfully crisp finish.

West Cape Howe own and operate vineyards throughout the expansive viticultural precincts of Australia's largest winegrowing region. It is here at Great Southern that the balmy West Australian growing season and salubrious mix of terroirs, form mesoclimes which are heaven sent for good wine, while permutating into a diversity which favour specific grapes and styles. From choice blocks on the Russell Road Vineyard at Frankland River, a golden buttery, oak fermented Chardonnay, engaging as aperitif and perfect match to fine gourmandise.

West Cape Howe were visionaries who took the initiative to exploit the endowments of West Australia's great southern land, they pioneered viticulture and sowed many of the region's first vineyards. It is amongst these precious old vines that the team work to deliver perfect yields of evenly ripened Sauvignon Blanc, exhibiting intense aromaticness and concentration of flavour. Made to the profound and engaging West Australian white Sauvignon style, the perfect match while young and fresh, alongside white meats and the freshest fish.

West Cape Howe make wines that are very much in the spirit of West Australia's sensual new world style, crafted with minimal intervention, allowing the distinctive eloquence of regionality and fruit to speak for itself. Grapes are sourced from the elite Block 6 of the estate Langton Vineyard at Mount Barker, a region that's quickly gaining international renown for the quality of Riesling. A tightly wound wine, with juicy lime fruit characters over a sound, judiciously balanced, revitalizing chalky acid structure.

Watershed's vineyards were established within the dress circle of stately Margaret River wineries, at the intersection of Darch Road and Bussell Highway. The climes here are an idyll for holiday makers and alfresco living. They are also heaven sent for viticulture and world class wines. The universally appealing accord of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc is one of the stylistic marvels of Margaret River. Watershed is fresh and vibrant, offering tangy passionfruit and grapefruit characters, clean, lingering and crisp.

Margaret River makes bold, flavoursome Chardonnay wines, offering a weight of fruit that drinks brilliantly without being aged or exposed to oak. A conspicuous wine show competition champion, judiciously medium bodied, fragrant with grapefruits and honey dew, kept vital and fresh in modern unwooded styling. The profound richness of natural Chardonnay fruit is upfront and central, lingering at the finish on the toothsome varietal characters of fresh fresh cut melons, tangerines and peach.

The Senses range are all about capturing the concentration and complexity which can be achieved through barrel ferments and extended maturation. Think west coast Fumé Blanc, the fruit of Margaret River's most opportune vineyards, treated to the indulence of vinification in fine French oak, for a meaty, savoury style of Sauvignon Blanc. Its lifted varietal thistle, grass and passion fruit bouquet is complemented by intriguing steamy wet stone characters, hazelnut and brine, multi dimensional, engaging, before a crisp, lingering finish.

Single vineyard Chardonnay from the mollycoddled Watershed property at Margaret River. Fermented as small batches in a mix of seasoned French oak barriques, treated to a course of stirring battonage on sediments for several months, as the wine infuses barrel richness and textural lees complexity. The creamyness of cashew and background matchstick of oak in support of the varietal grapefruits and nectarine. An immensely food friendly style to accompany pork belly recipes, oily fleshed fishes or traditional smoke cod with kipfler, tarragon and thyme.

Watershed's distinguished vineyards are planted at the very heart of Margaret River's most prestigious estates, along Bussell Highway at the turn off to Leeuwin and Voyager. Fruit is treated to a Burgundian style of vinification and élevage, infusing the palate with creamy cryastaline textures and luxurious lees complexity. Awakening is vinified exclusively from hand picked grapes grown to a select block at Watershed, inoculated by wild indigenous yeasts and completely barrel fermented, for a wine of opulence and grace.

Watershed were established adjacent to the stateliest terroirs in Margaret River, right along Bussell Highway at the turn off to the eminent Leeuwin and Voyager properties. Watershed's Awakening is the elite of the range, a flagship Chardonnay which has been treated to an extravagant vinification by a highly accomplished team. Winner of multiple awards and conspicuous national wine show accolades, Watershed receives the luxury of oak barrel ferments and lees handling regimens, achieving a golden Chardonnay wine of remarkable richness.

Voyager are meticulous in everything they do, from varietal and clonal selection to vineyard management and the winemaking process. They can call on harvests of estate grown fruit which are second to none, to be assembled into the definitive style of Margaret River white. Sauvignon Blanc Clone 1 contributes crunchy lifted tropical fruit, Semillon adds healthy citrus, structure and palate weight. A vibrant west coast wine of elegance and engaging complexity, offering exquisite balance and a measure of regional charm.

A well defined west coast style with a measure of suppleness and mineral elegance. The collation of a dozen small blocks from the Stevens Valley at Wallcliffe on Margaret River, vinified around a core of resonant, grapefruit defined Gin Gin clone Chardonnay. Parcels are pressed and partially wild yeast, oak barrel fermented, followed by a term of several months lees stirring battonage for complexity, texture and finesse. Girt By Sea to a place at your luncheon table, ideally alongside a grill of west coast marron, moreton bay bugs or fry of the freshest fish.

Some of the Chenin Blanc vines at Voyager Estate date back to the property's first planting in 1978. The fully mature blocks are treated to exacting viticultural practices, consistently producing some of the most superior quality fruit to be found anywhere in Margaret River. The team at Voyager aim to produce an easy drinking, aromatic Chenin Blanc that's not overly complex, in a sophisticated style which can retain and display the classic vibrant ripe varietal fruit flavours, complemented by a small amount of residual sugar.

Voyager Estate are in pursuit of elegance, structure and refinement, within the low alcohol spectrum of Chardonnay. Early picking and wild ferments, exposure to grape solids and battonage gives the wine complexity with balance. Treatments in high quality French oak achieve a wine of generosity and grace, structured and refined. The fruit profile is distinctly Margaret River, the palate is long and tight, creamy with regional dried pear and pink grapefruit showing through, enriched by luxurious notes of mealyness and nut.

Praise the virtues of Margaret River's most suave, stylish and stimulating oenological accords! A portion is fermented and matured fourteen weeks in new barriques, adding an amazing complexity to the core of fruit, infusing a delicate influence of very fine grain tannins and the unique spicy vanillin characters of French oak. The aromatic and textural complexity of a Semillon Sauvignon style has been enhanced by retaining extra solids in some of the parcels. A small contribution from Sauvignon Blanc fermented entirely on skins has added a unique savouryness.

Margaret River is recognized as a more modern style of Chardonnay, focusing on varietal fruit characters while permitting oak and fermentation complexity to support, not overwhelm. Heytesbury represents the best Margaret River Chardonnay Vasse Felix can produce each year, a regional flagship assembled from a barrel cull of the most spectacular parcels, representing the finest of vintage, articulating the complexities achieved through natural ferments, increased solids exposure and quality French oak.

An accord of the finest parcels Margaret River Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc, a wild ferment on skins and a course of vinification in good French oak contribute remarkable complexity, texture and length. Sauvignon Blanc delivers racy Margaret River greenness and winsome tropical passionfruit aromatics, Semillon adds luxurious slate pebble notes, maritime breeze and perfumed lime floral notes. A squeakingly clean and vibrant style, exhibiting subtle savouryness and offering lovely crystal mineral textures, tightly wound around a solid, fruit driven core.

A Chardonnay of extraordinary freshness, slightly more fruit forward than its icon Heytesbury sibling. Vasse Felix create a complex, softly textured wine, crafted to the old world traditions of wild yeast ferments and regular stirring in fine French oak. The final effort is distinct, elegant in style and true to Margaret River. Typified by its bright, delicate fruit and tight, underlying acidity throughout, a reflection of the purity to be found in Margaret River, a Chardonnay of compelling primary fruit flavours within a palate of the soundest structure.

One of the country's defining regional styles by one of our most splendid winemaking estates. Vasse Felix pioneered the vital blend of white varietal grapes and now the moniker Classic Dry White is synonymous with Margaret River. Vivacious lifted fruits drive the palate, classic tropical, passionfruit aromatics of Sauvignon Blanc combine with the grassy citrus herbal edge of Semillon, a refreshingly clean, zesty food friendly wine. Perfect with seafood and Asian poultry recipes, always a welcome guest around every table of fine fare.

Valley of the Giants is an ancient forest just outside of Denmark in Australia's deep southwest, home of the enormous indigenous Red Tingle tree. The magic of this ancient forest comes alive at night as local fauna meander around the cyclopean flora, some of which are sixteen metres in circumference. The Fifth Leg Devils Lair team know about white wine, earmarking the most lively parcels of Chardonnay, Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc to be vinified into a Crisp Dry White. Enjoy with chicken caesar and fresh seafood, scallops or calamari.

Pioneers of the Semillon/ Sauvignon blend, Tyrrell has extended the winery's reach of resources for this popular style of wine to good vineyards in Western Australia. The microclimes here are simply idyllic for producing delicious classic dry whites.

An exemplar in Sauvignon Blanc, by one of Margaret River's finest family estate owned and operated wineries. Salitage are renowned for the quality of their fruit and skill at minimalist vinification techniques. Extended resting on lees has contributed mouthfeel, a mouthfilling, textural palate and enticing complexity. Envigorating, fresh and crisp, to be served lightly chilled, as the prominent varietal fruit characters and crisp acidity make a refreshing aperitif style.

Bring in the finest harvests from the most splendid vineyards in the Australian west, fashion them to a dashing contemporary styling and make them available to the young at heart, palates with a taste for everything that's modern and fresh. This is the way of The Sum, revitalizing wines which are as balanced and generous as they are easy to enjoy. The passionfruit of Sauvignon Blanc with a spray of lemon sherbet, an intensely herbaceous core, clean, generously flavoured, an elegant mix of acidity and fruit ripeness, satisfyingly crisp before a lip smacking finish.