The Doctor’s Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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The Doctors’ range from Forrest Wines aims to provide attractive drinking, up front, with slightly lower alcohol. They sit a little under 10%. The wines also hope to provide all the familiar flavours. That is certainly the case with this exuberant Savvy from Marlborough. A very pale lemon hue, the aromatics seemingly explode from the glass. If you want to find passionfruit in a wine, look no further. It is supported with hints of pineapple, citrus and peaches. A juicy style with a fine line of acidity and decent length, there is good focus and direction. No reason you can’t drink it over the next three to four years, but there is also no reason why you would do anything other than drink it now.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
