2025 Vasse Felix Filius Sauvignon Blanc 6 Pack

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Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

A terrific Filius, thanks to its texture and restraint on the fragrance front. It’s complex and detailed with lemon balm and lemon barley water, a touch of grapefruit and pith, plus feijoa. It’s a little flinty, smoky with juicy acidity and excellent length.

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Tom Kline - Winepilot

There’s a lovely core of flavour here, on both the nose and the palate — compact, focused, nothing sprawling. Lemongrass, snow peas, guava, green apple, sweet blossom and lemon. The palate is vibrant and fresh with genuine thirst-quenching appeal, a bright glow of fruit through the mid-palate before tightening into a finish of freshness and flow. Nothing overt, nothing showy — just fresh, varietal and eminently drinkable. A neatly packaged Sauvignon Blanc that lands well at the price.

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Shanteh Wale - Winepilot

The $30 Filius Sauvignon Blanc label gets the same amount of consideration in wine making labour as does the top tier wines. Predominantly direct pressed to stainless and three separate vessels of oak, with a portion remaining on skins in an open fermenter. The wine is matured in stainless steel and those three seasoned vessels of oak. This is melon cut straight from the tree, cantelope, yuzu skin and mango flesh. The tropics are reigned in by some elderflower florals and the palate viscous with sandy texture. This is destined for food, meaty shellfish and prawn bisque, a wine of its own volition. Drink Now.

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Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

This is punchy with flavour and aroma. It’s not wan, that’s for sure. Guava and tropical fruit, lemongrass, apples and citrus. There’s body to this wine. The flavours hit and hold. After round after round of action it finishes dry.

91 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Checking in on this value wine from time to time is always reassuring. Everything at Vasse Felix is made with attention to detail, and the "entry level" wines are no exception—though it pays to be sure of that every now and again. The 2025 Filius Sauvignon Blanc opens with notes of lemongrass, green apple, preserved lemon, grapefruit and cut grass. This is a lovely little wine. It has some texture through the finish that elevates it out of the ranks of the masses. This is very good. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

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Cyndal Petty - Winepilot

A delicate, floral Sauvignon Blanc filled with lime zest, white flowers and passionfruit curd. In the mouth, it hits exactly as it should: fresh, pithy and reminiscent of long summer days spent on the deck of an old Queenslander.