Tasting Notes 🍋

• Colour: Pale lemon with brilliant clarity.
• Aromatics: Floral and citrus-led with lemongrass, basil and delicate bath-salt minerality.
• Palate: Elderflower and sherbet zest sweep across the palate with juicy, crunchy acidity. Subtle tropical fruits blend with citrus and soft talc texture, carrying the flavours through a long, fresh finish.
• Finish: Textured, crisp and beautifully balanced with lingering citrus and floral lift.

Vintage 2025 Summary ☀️

After the hot, dry conditions of 2024, the 2025 vintage brought a welcome return to balance. Mild, sunny spring weather set the season up perfectly, while warm days and cool nights in December encouraged healthy shoot growth and ideal berry development. January warmth accelerated ripening, with careful vineyard management ensuring fruit quality remained high despite increased bird pressure. Whites from 2025 show incredible freshness, varietal purity and exceptional vibrancy.

Viticulture & Winemaking

Blend: Semillon 50.7 percent, Sauvignon Blanc 49.3 percent
Region: Margaret River
Winemaker: Eloise Jarvis

Winemaking Approach:
• All fruit harvested at night for maximum freshness
• Each batch crushed, chilled and pressed to stainless steel
• Cool fermentation for vibrant aromatics
• Light fining with PVPP
• Heat and cold stabilised then filtered prior to bottling
• Bottled May 2025
• No oak used

Alcohol: 12.5 percent
Standard Drinks: 7.4
Cellar Potential: Best enjoyed within 2 years
Vegan Friendly

Food Pairing Suggestions 🍽️

• Grilled prawns or scallops with lemon herb dressing
• Goat’s cheese and asparagus tart
• Zucchini, pea and mint risotto
• Thai green papaya salad
• Crisp fish tacos with lime crema

FAQ 🧐

What makes Karridale ideal for Sauvignon Blanc?
Its cooler climate boosts aromatic lift, linear acidity and fine texture.

Why no oak?
To preserve the purity, clarity and refreshing definition of the SSB style.

How long will it age?
While vibrant now, it will hold its freshness for around two years.

Learn About Wills Domain

Wills Domain estate sprawls across 20 hectares in the picturesque Gunyulgup Valley within Yallingup, nestled in the renowned Margaret River wine region.

Our vineyards thrive on the sun-kissed northern- and western-facing slopes of Gunyulgup Valley, winding toward the Indian Ocean coast. Benefitting from the ideal maritime climate for grape cultivation, Wills Domain proudly presents its exquisite, handcrafted Margaret River wines, cultivated from two established old-vine vineyards dating back to 1992.

Since their designation as wine merchants by royal appointment in Austria during the 1380s, the Haunold family has maintained their esteemed legacy, now extending to the new world wineries of Australia. Their tradition perseveres in the ancient soils of Western Australia. The tranquil maritime influences, coupled with the site’s elevation and prehistoric red gravel soils, converge to create a vine terroir renowned worldwide.

Darren Haunold founded Wills Domain in 2000, Winemaking is in Darren’s blood, along with a tradition of generous hospitality and deep appreciation of modern Australian gastronomy. Since 1985, the vineyard has gone from strength to strength, and is now a Halliday 5 Red Star-rated Margaret River winery and home to one of Western Australia’s most-awarded regional restaurants.

Chief Winemaker Richard Rowe has over 35 years of winemaking experience and has worked in most premium wine regions in Australia. Internationally, he has completed vintages in France, Germany and South Africa. Richard first came to Margaret River in 2003, as chief winemaker for Evans & Tate, where he oversaw a transformation of winemaking quality and style, winning many Wine Show awards both domestically and internationally. Prior to joining Evans & Tate, he spent 13 years in the Clare Valley, South Australia, with Leasingham Wines and Kirrihill Wines. Richard has been instrumental in helping propel Wills Domain to 5-star Halliday status and rack up high rankings for our different ranges.

Read the latest Ray Jordan Wine Reviews of Wills Domain HERE