UMAMU 2011 Savignon Blanc Wins Trophy for Best West Australian White - Australia Small Winemakers Show 2024

Winning a trophy is already a milestone.  Winning a Trophy for our 2011 Sauvignon Blanc is beyond amazing. I am forever grateful.  

Wine is so personal.  But as vignerons we do really strive to produce wines that more people will love than just ourselves!  So when it appears that you really do love it as much as we do and judges give you a trophy, well it is a happy reinforcement of our winemaking journey!  Thank you to the Australian Small Winemakers Show.

My palate grew up with French wines. It was exposed to drinking wines that had had time in the bottle to get ready before release.  So, naturally, when we started to produce wines in 2005, I adopted the same philosophy.  I still remember going to market in 2007 in Perth, cold calling retail outlets.  They all thought I was mad showing a two-year-old white wine.

I have continued to pursue the belief that a wine that has had time in the bottle, becomes much more characterful and interesting.  Good wines age well and become better.

Huon Hooke featured this wine in his 2021 article ‘Three Smaller Margaret River Labels Making Waves’ writing, “This winery regularly surprises by releasing mature wines at remarkably affordable prices. This is an excellent wine and a rare example of a mature, ripe sauvignon blanc. A full yellow colour reveals its age. The bouquet confirms it as a mature sauvignon blanc with toasty, nutty aromas derived from maturation plus a suspicion of barrel, resulting in a beautifully spicy complexity that deftly mixes fruit and secondary characteristics. It’s full-bodied and rich in the mouth, properly dry and savoury as well as generous and lingering.” 

I produced Sauvignon Blanc for my mum as her all-time favourite white was a Chateau Margaux Pavillon Blanc from Bordeaux.  Of course we had to try to emulate this and produce one of our own.  This wine has even flown in First Class with Qantas International.  Once Mum was longer here to enjoy her wine, I submitted it to Qantas in the hope that the wine and “Mum” would continue flying round the world! An example of another dream coming true.

If you are inclined to developed whites and fancy trying a drop of this beautiful wine, you can find it here.

 Cheers!