Auntsfield ‘Single Vineyard’ 2018 Sauvignon Blanc and 2017 Pinot Noir, and 2016 ‘South Oaks’ Sauvignon Blanc

FEATURED WINES IN THIS REVIEW

• Auntsfield ‘Single Vineyard’ Southern Valleys Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2018
  Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand - Marlborough

  Review Date : 03-Oct-2018

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Bright, light straw-yellow colour with slight green hues. The nose is full and softly voluminous with subtle aromas of passionfruit entwined with hints of nettles and fresh herbs. The aromatics form a fine and intense core. Dry to taste and medium-bodied, the palate has soft and elegantly packed flavours of vibrant passionfruit intermixed with fresh herbs, nettles and cut-grass. The fruit is finely concentrated and flows along a very fine-textured line, enlivened by lacy acidity. The flavours are restrained, but the palate has good presence and vinosity, and the wine carries to a lingering, nuanced finish. This is an elegant and softly restrained Sauvignon Blanc with cool-spectrum passionfruit, herb and nettle flavours on a finely concentrated core with fresh acidity. Serve with salads and vegetables over the next 2 years. Fruit fermented in stainless-steel, with 2% in seasoned oak to 13.0% alc. 18.0/20 Oct 2018 RRP $25.00
• Auntsfield ‘Single Vineyard’ Southern Valleys Marlborough Pinot Noir 2017
  Pinot Noir from New Zealand - Marlborough

  Review Date : 03-Oct-2018

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Very full, dark purple-hued ruby-red colour, youthful in expression. This has a firmly packed and deep nose of vibrant and bright dark-red berry and plum-fruit subtly entwined with a core of dark herbs, unfolding hints of liquorice and spice. Medium-full bodied, the palate has sweetly rich flavours of ripe dark-red and black-berried fruits harmoniously melded with plum notes. The fruit is plush and mouthfilling, and is supported by fine-grained, supple tannin extraction and grip. The acidity is soft and balanced. Notes of liquorice and herbs, along with spice unfold, as the wine carries to a soft, flavoursome finish. This is a sweetly rich dark-red and black berried and plummy Pinot Noir with spice and herb notes on a plush palate with supple structure. Match with duck and pork, or lamb and beef over the next 4+ years. Pinot Noir fruit hand-picked, destemmed and fermented partially by indigenous yeasts to 14.0% alc., the wine aged 10 months in 28% new French oak barriques. 18.0+/20 Oct 2018 RRP $45.00
• Auntsfield ‘South Oaks’ Southern Valleys Marlborough Barrel Fermented Sauvignon Blanc 2016
  Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand - Marlborough

  Review Date : 03-Oct-2018

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Full, even, light straw-yellow colour with green tints. The nose is full with good depth and presence of ripe green stonefruits along with dark herbs and gooseberries melded harmoniously with a subtle layering of creamy, nutty oak, hints of toast and complexing oxidative suggestions, forming a concentrated, rounded core. Dry to taste and medium-full bodied, the palate has good depth and richness with a heart of complex interwoven flavours of ripe, green stonefruits with gooseberries and herbs, complexing nutty oak and oxidative hints. The flavours show with good presence, forming a solid heart, with fresh, lacy acidity lending energy and cut. The wine flows harmoniously to an elegant, lingering finish. This is a complex, oak-influenced Sauvignon Blanc with green stonefruits, gooseberries, herbs and nutty flavours, on a palate with good weight and complexing detail. Match with herb-marinated poultry and pork dishes over the next 3+ years. Hand-picked fruit from a 2 ha elevated corner block next to some old oak trees, WBP and fully barrel-fermented to 14.0% alc., the wine aged 10 months on lees in 20% new French oak. 18.5/20 Oct 2018 RRP $38.00