Clearview Estate – A Selection of 2018 Complex Whites

FEATURED WINES IN THIS REVIEW

• Clearview ‘Reserve’ Hawke’s Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2018
  Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand - Hawke's Bay

  Review Date : 25-Jan-2019

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Bright, light golden straw-yellow colour, a little lighter on the rim. The nose is softly full with integrated aromas of green stonefruits, nectarines, and greengages, and a little cut grass interwoven with soft notes of nutty oak and some piquant lees adding freshness to the nose. Fresh herb notes unfold with aeration. This has good balance and integration. Dry to taste and medium-bodied, the palate has a near-unctuous texture with deep, rounded and integrated flavours of green stoneftuits and herbal notes interwoven with soft, nutty oak. Some fresh piquancy provides liveliness, energy and vitality, and the wine carries smoothly to a soft, rounded, lingering finish. This is a smooth, integrated oak-influenced Sauvignon Blanc with richness and subtle freshness. Match with herb-marinated seafood and white meats over the next 3-4 years. Te Awanga fruit fully indigenous yeast barrel-fermented in old oak to 12.5% alc. and < 1g/L RS, the wine aged 5 months in oak undergoing batonnage and partial MLF. 18.0/20 Jan 2019 RRP $27.00
• Clearview ‘Reserve’ Hawke’s Bay Semillon 2018
  Semillon from New Zealand - Hawke's Bay

  Review Date : 25-Jan-2019

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Brilliant, light golden-yellow colour with some depth. The nose has good concentration and firmness with a strong core of green stonefruits, nectarines, gooseberries and cut grass. The oak shows prominence and is broad in expression, but shows crispness and firmness. Dry to taste and medium-full bodied, the palate has a concentrated and intensely packed core of green stonefruits showing nectarines, greengages, cut grass, along with up-front, spicy oak notes. The fruit forms a dense line, but is enlivened by fresh, crisp acidity. The firm linearity and flavours carry to a brisk, lingering finish. This is a frim, crisp and brisk oak-influenced Semillon with intense stonefruit, cut-grass and herbal flavours on a racy palate with oak notes showing strongly. Match with herb-marinated white dishes over the next 3-4 years. Te Awanga fruit fully indigenous yeast barrel-fermented in 2 y.o. oak to 12.6% alc. and < 1 g/L RS, the wine aged 8 months in oak undergoing batonnage and partial MLF. 17.5+/20 Jan 2019 RRP $27.00
• Clearview ’Karaka’ Hawke’s Bay 2016
  Other White from New Zealand - Hawke's Bay

  Review Date : 13-Dec-2016

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Full, light golden-yellow colour with some peach-orange hues at the hearth, lighter on the edge. The nose is tight and firmly packed with aromas of savoury tropical fruit entwined with herbs, green stonefruits and nuances of gooseberries, unfolding citrus fruit detail. Dry to taste and light-medium bodied, this has a well-concentrated and tight core with flavours of savoury topical fruit and green stonefruits, along with citrus and herb detail, and lifted yellow florals. The mouthfeel features moderately fine-textured extraction providing a dry, grainy presence and line, which along with fresh, lacy acidity provides balance and freshness. The acidity enlivens the fruitiness and along with the textures carry to wine to a crisp finish. This is a well-concentrated skin-contact Sauvignon Gris with savoury tropical fruit and green stonefuit flavours on a grainy-textured, but refreshing palate. Match with herb-marinated pasta, poultry and pork dishes over the next 2 years. The second ‘single vineyard’ ‘Karaka’ Te Awanga release, the first being a rosé. This is made as an ‘orange’ wine, 100% Sauvignon Gris, fermented and aged 150 days on skins to 12.5% alc. and <1.0 g/L RS, the wine bottled unfined, unfiltered and with no added sulphur. 17.5+/20 Dec 2016 RRP $21.00
• Clearview ‘Coastal’ Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2018
  Pinot Gris from New Zealand - Hawke's Bay

  Review Date : 25-Jan-2019

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Brilliant, light straw-yellow colour, lighter on the rim. The nose is elegantly presented with fresh and gently full aromas of fragrant, exotic white and yellow florals along with lifted pear fruit, hints of nuts and sweet lifted elements, unfolding nuances of saline mineral elements. Dryish to taste and medium-full bodied, the palate is gently rich , lush and rounded with flavours of ripe pear fruit along with fragrant white and yellow florals with hints of honey and nuances of saline and minerals. The palate is rounded with some underlying alcoholic drive and balanced soft acidity. The wine flows along a rounded, luscious line and carries to a lingering finish with richness and sweetness. This is a rich, rounded and lush off-dry Pinot Gris with fragrant pear and floral fruit with notes of honey and minerals on a palate with drive and soft acidity. Match with Asian fare over the next 3 years. Fruit from Porangahau, WBP and tank-fermented to 13.7% alc. and 4.1 g/L RS, the wine undergoing batonnage but no MLF. 18.0+/20 Jan 2019 RRP $21.00
• Clearview ‘Coastal’ Hawke’s Bay Gewurztraminer 2018
  Gewurztraminer from New Zealand - Hawke's Bay

  Review Date : 25-Jan-2019

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Bright, full, deep, light lemon-green hued straw-yellow colour, a little lighter on the edge. The nose is firm and tightly bound with a concentrated core of root ginger fruit aromas along with an amalgam of florals and herbs and complex nuances of minerally reductive elements. Off-dry to taste and medium-full bodied, the palate is firm and concentrated with a well-driven core of root ginger fruit along with subtle floral, spice and herb elements. A little reduction adds to the firmness and concentration with hints of bitterness. The palate is fine-textured and has integrated acidity that lends good drive, leading to a lingering, off-dry finish. This is a firm and concentrated off-dry Gewurztraminer with flavours of root ginger, minerals, herbs and a little reduction, good linearity and fine textures. Serve with Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine over the next 3 tears. Te Awanga fruit, WBP and indigenous yeast tank-fermented to 13.5% alc. and 6 g/L RS, the wine aged 4 months on lees. 17.5/20 Jan 2019 RRP $21.00