Forest Edge Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Goat cheese salad, fresh oysters, grilled white fish
✨ Technical Specifications
While Brokenwood is anchored in the Hunter Valley, their pursuit of exceptional cool-climate fruit led them to the high-altitude slopes of the Orange region in New South Wales. The Forest Edge Vineyard, perched at approximately 800 meters above sea level, benefits from rich volcanic soils and a chilly climate that slows grape ripening. This allows the Sauvignon Blanc grapes to develop intense aromatic profiles of passionfruit, gooseberry, and bright citrus while retaining a crisp, flinty acidity. Brokenwood employs careful, minimal-intervention winemaking, primarily using temperature-controlled stainless steel fermentation to preserve the pristine, vibrant fruit character and mineral drive that defines this elegant high-altitude terroir.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1970 by Sydney solicitors James Halliday, John Beeston, and Tony Albert, Brokenwood Wines began on a ten-acre Pokolbin parcel initially intended as a cricket ground. Situated in the lower Hunter Valley against the Brokenback Mountain Range, the estate operates on alluvial loams and heavy clay soils, shaped by a warm, humid subtropical climate with cooling maritime breezes. While historically anchored by its renowned Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz, Brokenwood established equivalent global renown for its pure, cellar-worthy white wines. The estate practices certified viticulture under Sustainable Winegrowing Australia standards, supervised in cellar operations by Chief Winemaker Stuart Hordern following Iain Riggs's transformative tenure. Renowned benchmark expressions include the single-vineyard and aged ILR Reserve Semillon—celebrated for low-alcohol tension, racy citrus acidity, and nuanced toast developments without oak maturation—alongside single-site iterations like Stanleigh Park Vineyard Semillon and cool-climate chardonnays from Beechworth and Orange.
🍇 Grapes
Sauvignon Blanc
🍷 ABV
12.0% - 13.0%