Cable Bay 2013 Sauvignon Blanc and 2012 Pinot Noir

22-Aug-2013

There have been significant changes at Cable Bay on Waiheke Island. In October last year, Neill Culley, winemaker and founding shareholder assumed ownership of the Cable Bay business with Loukas Petrou, a construction company director. The company recently announced the purchase of two vineyards totalling 28 ha in the Awatere Valley, consolidating its fruit supply. Cable Bay has wines from Waiheke Island, Marlborough and Central Otago, allowing the company to be marketed as a producer of wines from the length of the company which will be valuable in global terms. Here I review the new release 2013 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and 2012 Central Otago Pinot Noir. www.cablebay.co.nz

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Cable Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2013
Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand - Marlborough
Review Date : 22-Aug-2013
☆☆☆☆☆
Bright, very pale straw colour with slight green hues, near colourless on edge. Fresh, tightly bound and intensely concentrated aromas of pungent passionfruit are complexed by subtle flint and mineral nuances. This promises to develop and unfold more interest and richness. Dry to taste, finely concentrated, taut flavours of sweet passionfruit and minerals form a strong core with real linearity and drive. The palate is very fine-featured, very refined in texture, with taut, crisp and mouthwatering acidity. The flavours flow with energy and slipperiness, carrying through to a densely packed amalgam of long, lingering mineral and passionfruit flavours. This is a youthfully taut, concentrated and refined Sauvignon Blanc with lip-smacking freshness. Serve as an aperitif or with shellfish over the next 2-3 years. Fruit from the Wairau Valley, cool-fermented in stainless-steel to 13.0% alc. and 3.2 g/L RS. 18.5/20 Aug 2013 RRP $19.90
Cable Bay Central Otago Pinot Noir 2012
Pinot Noir from New Zealand - Otago
Review Date : 22-Aug-2013
☆☆☆☆☆
Fruit from ‘Northburn Station’, Bendigo, hand-picked and transported to the Cable Bay Waiheke Island winery, destemmed, given a cold soak and fermented to 14.5% alc., the wine aged in Frebch oak barriques. Medium deep ruby-red colour, lighter on rim. The nose is elegant with tightly bound aromas of dark cherries, kirsch and red florals, with a fine underlay of liquorice, dark herbs and minerals that unfold with detail and interest. Medium-full bodied, the fruit expression is shy and restrained, slowly revealing savoury dark red cherry fruit flavours interwoven with herbs and minerals. Sweet and subtly succulent raspberry and red liquorice notes emerge from the core. The fruit is supported by fine, grainy tannins, crisp acidity, and some alcohol warmth that carries the palate to a dry finish. This is a tightly bound Pinot Noir with a dark cherry core and dry, grainy textures. Match with Mediterranean-themed cuisine over the next 4+ years. 17.0+/20 Aug 2013 RRP $36.00

Cable Bay 2013 Sauvignon Blanc and 2012 Pinot Noir

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