Family-run Preveli Wines in WA has been awarded the trophy for Best Sauvignon Blanc at this year’s Boutique Winemakers Awards of Australia.
The winning wine was their 2014 ‘Wild Thing’ Sauvignon Blanc from Margaret River, which was voted best Sauvignon Blanc in Australia and New Zealand.
Owner Gregory Home said the award was particularly significant in that it gave recognition to small producers, which he says “offer so much more personality and vibrancy than mass-produced styles for the supermarket chains”.
“The ability to come into our cellar door in the seaside hamlet of Prevelly with sandy feet after a surf, chat to the owner, try the wine and chew the fat about the region is something quite special in our busy lives today,” Mr Home explains.
Established in 1995, the company was named after the Cretan village of Preveli, in honour of the monks who hid and assisted the escape of Allied troops after the Battle of Crete in 1941.
