The Crossings ‘Wild’ Awatere Sauvignon Blanc 2016

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• The Crossings ‘Wild’ Awatere Valley Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2016
  Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand - Marlborough

  Review Date : 01-Mar-2018

  ☆☆☆☆☆

  Bright, even, pale golden-yellow colour, lighter on the rim. The nose is softly full with an accessible array of complex aromas of savoury nectarines and green stonefruit with ripe gooseberries and greengages, unfolding a little nuttiness, smoke and minerals. Some green bean elements emerge with aeration. Dry to taste and medium-full bodied, the flavours are mouthfilling with rich, complex, savoury green stonefruits and nectarines melded with hints of green beans and nutty oak. This is showing some secondary development. The fruit forms a deep and dense core revealing sweetness and richness, and is enlivened by fresh acidity. The wine flows along a very fine-textured line leading to a zesty, mouthwatering finish. This is a mouthfilling, complex-flavoured oak-influenced Sauvignon with sweetly rich flavours of green stonefruits with some secondary bean notes, enlivened by refreshing acidity. Serve with herb-marinated seafood and white meat dishes over the next 2-3 years. Fruit from the ‘Willow Flat’ vineyard indigenous yeast fermented with light solids in a 1,000 L French oak oval and a selection of seasoned barriques to 13.5% alc. and 1.3 g/L RS, the wine aged in these barrels for 8 months with batonnage and partial MLF. 18.0/20 Mar 2018 RRP $38.99 TBC