Colour

Brilliant straw-yellow colour with green hues and a pale rim.

Aroma

The bouquet is full, open and voluminous with fresh and powerful passionfruit aromas along with gooseberries, lime fruit and flinty minerals that blossom.

Palate

Dry to taste, the palate has layers of rich, pungent passionfruit and grapefruit flavours with ripe capsicums and fresh herbs that fill the mouth. . The acidity is restrained and a fine textural thread provides line and length, leading to a soft, richly nuanced finish. This is an openly accessible and flavorsome Sauvignon with drive and concentration to match salads, vegetables and rich poultry dishes.

Winemaking

In our Martinborough vineyards we train the vines to achieve a low canopy density and well-exposed fruit. This combined with judicious leaf plucking produces the distinctive fruit flavours in the wine. When the grapes are judged to be at their optimum maturity they are harvested and processed to retain the inherent fruitiness of this varietal

Winemaker

» Allan Johnson

Technical Details

• Picking Date: 1-20 April 2011
• Alcohol: 13.5%
• Bottled: 17 August 2011

Ageing Potential

Sauvignon Blanc is best drunk young, within a year or two of bottling while it’s still crisp, fresh and zingy: now to 2014.