Region: New Zealand - Marlborough
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
Alcohol: 13.0%
Notes on the Wine
Elegant and intense, creamy and full of fruit.
Lower yields, French yeast, long and very cold fermentation and a version of "NEW WORLD" battonage produces a wine of lush flavors, true elegance, varietal definition, classic Awatere minerality and a weighty mid-palate.
Later harvesting allows more hang time in the long fall evenings and larger diurnal temperature differences, both of which help this wine develop its complex palette.
Notes on the Producer
We make wines we feel are honest and representative rather than a copy of a wine from somewhere else. Wine that reflects the true character of the Blind River terroir of the vineyard where we make our home. Wine that adds texture and balance to the intensity of the world famous Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs.
Our belief is that winemaking starts in the vineyard. Fruit carefully tended and managed using sensible, sustainable methods requires minimal intervention from the winemaker for our terroir to show its potential. The result is wines of quality with unique flavour profiles - wines with a freshness and minerality not found elsewhere in Marlborough.
We judge ourselves more by the integrity of our wines rather than the accolades we earn. As a cool climate region we expect variation between vintages. We seek continual improvement and consistent wines by blending our wines blind rather than repeating what we did the year before.
Whilst the vast majority of our wines are sourced from our own vineyard, we bring a small amount of grapes into the winemaking mix from a sustainable vineyard who shares our views on care.
