Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand - Canterbury & Waipara
Review Date : 27-Mar-2025
Bright, even, pale straw yellow with a light green hue. The nose is softly full, with fresh aromas of grapefruit, gooseberry, lemongrass, snow pea, delicate spice and flint. Medium-full bodied, aromas of gooseberry and grapefruit entwined with stonefruit, lemongrass, wet stone and flintstone. The ripe fruit is underlined with taut acidity, which flows on a fine mineral, stony mouthfeel, providing delightful weight and unfolding savoury elements and flinty complexity to a long, charming finish. A soulful Sauvignon Blanc with impeccable structure, liveliness and complexity. Match with smoked fish pie and goat's cheese tart over the next 5+ years. The fruit was picked over a period of time to produce a spectrum of flavours, the free-run juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks at a cool temperature, and a selection of fruit was fermented whole bunch and then matured on skins for 200 days approx, a small portion of aged Semillon has been included in the finished wine. Both varieties were aged on their lees for 10 months before bottling. 19/20 pts (95 pts) Mar 2025 RRP $28
