KWV Classic Sauvignon Blanc
£9.99
£13.32 per litre · incl. 20% VAT
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Bright, breezy and built for easy drinking, this is Sauvignon Blanc doing exactly what you want it to. Passion fruit and lime lift out of the glass, the palate is soft and juicy with that classic Cape green-herb twist, and the finish stays crisp. A reliable go-to white at a price that makes it a weeknight staple.
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Our Verdict
We taste a lot of sub-tenner Sauvignon Blanc, and most of it either lands too green and thin or tries to be Marlborough on a budget. KWV Classic sidesteps both traps: it's got the tropical lift you want, a proper chalky mineral spine, and it doesn't feel like it's cutting corners. This is our pick for the customer who wants a reliable weeknight white, a safe bring-a-bottle option, or a case for a summer garden gathering. If you love it, the KWV Classic Chenin Blanc is well worth a look too.
Tasting Notes
A lifted, aromatic nose leads with passion fruit, lime zest and ripe guava, backed by classic gooseberry and a whisper of freshly cut asparagus. The palate is where this wine surprises: soft, fleshy and juicy rather than lean, with tropical fruit filling the mid-palate before a chalky mineral streak tightens everything up. The finish is crisp and seamless, refreshing without being sharp. Easy-drinking in the best sense, made to be poured cold and often.
About This Wine
Some Sauvignon Blancs try too hard. This one just gets on with it. Pour it cold, take a sniff, and you're straight into passion fruit, lime zest and a puff of guava, with gooseberry lurking behind. It's the sort of nose that makes you pour a second glass before you've thought about food. The palate is where KWV's blending team really earn their keep. They pull fruit from cooler, Atlantic-influenced pockets across the Western Cape (think Darling and the breezy south coast) and layer it into something soft, fleshy and juicy rather than sharp-elbowed. There's a green thread of asparagus and cut grass, a chalky mineral edge that keeps the finish clean, and enough acidity to make your mouth water for the next sip. Drink it as an aperitif on a warm evening, or line it up with sushi, grilled chicken, a goat's cheese salad or anything herby and green. It's a house white in the best sense: dependable, generous, and never boring. KWV has been shaping South African wine since 1918, and their Classic Collection is where over a century of blending know-how gets poured into a genuinely affordable bottle. We deliver across the UK, so stocking up for summer, a dinner party or a case that lives permanently in the fridge is easy work.
Food Pairing
This is a natural match for anything from the sea. Think a plate of fresh oysters, prawns tossed with garlic and chilli, or a supermarket sushi lunch elevated to something special. The green-herb thread also loves goat's cheese salads and asparagus season, while the juicy fruit handles grilled chicken or a roast pork loin with apple sauce beautifully.
- —Fresh oysters with lemon and mignonette
- —Salmon and avocado sushi
- —Goat's cheese and beetroot salad
- —Grilled chicken with lemon and herbs
- —Chargrilled asparagus with olive oil and sea salt
How to Serve
Decanting
No decanting needed. This is a fresh, aromatic white made for immediate pouring. Straight from the bottle into a chilled glass is exactly the point.
Ageing & Cellaring
Drink young and drink cold. This is an unoaked, fruit-forward Sauvignon Blanc built to shine on release, when its aromatics and crisp acidity are at their liveliest. Enjoy within a year or two of purchase rather than cellaring.
The Winemaking
Unoaked and built for purity, this is Sauvignon Blanc made to let the fruit do the talking. Cool, temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel locks in the lifted passion fruit and lime aromatics, while a short rest on fine lees before bottling adds just a touch of texture to the middle palate. No barrel, no artifice: the result is a crisp, juicy wine that arrives at the table exactly as intended, fresh and ready to pour cold.
The Western Cape Region
Le Domaine draws its fruit from vineyards scattered across the Western Cape, from coastal sites cooled by Atlantic breezes to warmer inland slopes, all planted between 50 and 300 metres above sea level. This broad sourcing is deliberate. By blending components from different microclimates, the cellar builds a consistent house style that balances the crisp acidity of cooler sites with the ripe generosity of warmer ones. It's the Western Cape's extraordinary diversity captured in a single glass.
About the Producer
KWV
KWV isn't just a producer, it's practically an institution. Head to Paarl in the Cape Winelands and you'll find one of the largest wine cellar complexes on earth, sprawling across more than 22 hectares. That scale tells you something about the role this co-operative has played in shaping South African wine as we know it.
Founded in 1918 to bring order and quality to a fragmented industry of independent farmers, KWV spent much of the twentieth century as the organising force behind South African wine. Quotas, pricing, export rules; for decades, if you were a Cape wine farmer, KWV touched your business in some way. It's a history unlike almost any other wine producer in the world, and it explains why the name still carries real weight in Paarl and beyond.
Today KWV has evolved into a producer in its own right, making wines, brandies and spirits from that historic Paarl base, drawing on fruit sourced across the Western Cape. What we love about KWV is the reliability. The Classic range covers the varietals UK drinkers already know and enjoy, Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, Merlot, Pinotage, Shiraz, made accessible and consistent without cutting corners. These are honest, well-made wines for everyday drinking, the kind you can pour on a Tuesday without a second thought.
Then there's Roodeberg, KWV's most storied wine. First released in 1949, it became something of a Cape institution itself, a red blend so sought after in South Africa that it was once rationed among loyal customers. That's the sort of detail that tells you a wine has earned its reputation the old-fashioned way, through generations of drinkers rather than marketing.
We stock KWV because it offers UK customers two things at once: a genuine piece of South African wine history, and wines that are simply good value, easy to enjoy, and true to their place. Whether you're new to South African wine or you grew up with a bottle of Roodeberg on the family table, there's something here worth exploring. Every bottle carries Wine of Origin Western Cape certification, a straightforward guarantee of where it's really from.