Our wines
2008 Wairarapa Sauvignon Blanc
Description
This crisp styled wine has a wonderful combination of gooseberry, ripe capsicum and passionfruit aromas - typical stylish Sauvignon Blanc. We love to drink it with seafood or pasta dishes and delicious summer salads. While this wine is ready to drink now, it can also be cellared for up to two years.
Technical notes
Harvest date24 March to 4 April 2008
BrixBrix Average Average of 21.5
Fermentation
BottledSeptember 2008
AlcoholALC. 12.5%
pH3.15
Total Acidity TA 6.9g/L
Residual Sugar2.7g/L
Vineyard
The fruit for this wine is sourced from our home vineyard at Opaki in the Wairarapa and the Martinborough vineyard of Andy and Elaine Sutherland. These are young vines that carry a small crop of intensely flavoured grapes. We have several different blocks of Sauvignon Blanc where we use various canopy management techniques to provide us with a range of complex flavours from the grapes.
Winemaking
The focus in the winery is to capture the pure fruit flavours that come from the vineyard whilst adding complexity through our winemaking efforts to provide a multi-dimensional wine. This is achieved by tank fermenting the juice using yeasts that are able to ferment to low temperatures – preserving the essential fruit flavours.
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Vintage: / 2008
