Winemaker Notes
Aroma: Passion fruit, Cape gooseberries and lime abound. These are made complex by toasty oak and butterscotch notes.
Palate: An explosion of flavour. Ripe Sauvignon Blanc, balanced with oak and malolactic characteristics. A powerful wine, with complexity and persistence of flavour.
This is a Sauvignon Blanc of the highest quality, with great depth of flavour and subtle complexity. The Awatere Sauvignon Blanc shows the untapped potential of New Zealands best grape variety.
Recognized for its distinctively herbaceous and aromatic, Sauvignon Blanc, New Zealand is perfectly suited to the grape with its maritime climate, plenty of rainfall and abundant sunshine. Producers have almost unilaterally embraced cutting-edge winery technology, resulting in clean, high-quality wines at every price point from wallet-friendly to premium. Sauvignon blanc is at its best in Marlborough but thrives throughout as the country. It is New Zealand’s most planted and successful variety, also accounting for an overwhelming majority of its exports.