Winemaker Notes
Equally aromatic and delicious, this brims with honeysuckle, passionfruit and nectarine flavors that are generous juicy, ripe and delicious. Shows focus and good acidity on a light body. Lively acidity emerges and carries the palate to a sustained finish featuring fresh herb and gooseberry flavours. This is a properly dry and concentrated gooseberryish Sauvignon Blanc with grainy palate textures.
It will be a good food wine to match with seafood, poultry and vegetables.
Capable of a vast array of styles, Sauvignon Blanc is a crisp, refreshing variety that equally reflects both terroir and varietal character. Though it can vary depending on where it is grown, a couple of commonalities always exist—namely, zesty acidity and intense aromatics. This variety is of French provenance. Somm Secret—Along with Cabernet Franc, Sauvignon Blanc is a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon. That green bell pepper aroma that all three varieties share is no coincidence—it comes from a high concentration of pyrazines (herbaceous aromatic compounds) inherent to each member of the family.
Part of the Wairarapa region in the southern end of the country’s North Island, Martinborough is a bucolic appellation full of artisan, lifestyle wine producers. Above all else, their goals are to tend vineyards for low yields and create wines of supreme quality. Pinot noir is the main grape variety here, occupying over half of the land under vine.
Comparing topography, climate and soils, the region is nearly identical to Marlborough except that it produces top quality reds on the regular.