2026 Halliday Top Rated

The best sauvignon blanc in Australia 2026

By The Tasting Team

The Weaver Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2024 has been named the best sauvignon blanc in Australia.

The Halliday Wine Companion Awards celebrate the top wines in Australia – as chosen by our esteemed wine critics who spend the year tasting and reviewing wine from across the country. Below, you'll find Australia's best sauvignon blancs, along with the ratings awarded by the Tasting Team.

But before you dive into the exhaustive list of Australia's best sauvignon blanc, you can check out the current winner of our Sauvignon Blanc of the Year award – the 2024 Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc from Weaver.

With four decades as custodian of the plantings he established in Lenswood with his father under his belt, Geoff Weaver is a true guardian of the Adelaide Hills. We were delighted to see his Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc win its category, for its quality but also for its incredible revival following the Cudlee Creek fires, which tore through Geoff ’s vineyard in 2019.
 

2026 Best Sauvignon Blanc of the Year in Australia

Weaver Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2024, Adelaide Hills

97 points (PD*) | Price when tasted $33


Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2023, Wrattonbully

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Tip-top release of a regional stalwart. Classic lime and passionfruit characters with faint ginger, vanilla cream and pink grapefruit. Good concentration of flavour, length, too, with some fine, dusty pucker doing pleasing things. Excellent in its way, elevating a simple wine approach so well. Go in. – Mike Bennie

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This is an edited extract from the 2026 Halliday Wine Companion, with reviews by Dave Brookes, Jane Faulkner, Jeni Port, Katrina Butler, Marcus Ellis, Mike Bennie, Philip Rich, Shanteh Wale and Toni Paterson MW. Cover art by James Coe.

*Panel decision – score awarded by the Halliday Tasting Team at the annual Awards judging.


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