Greywacke Sauvignon Blanc 2024

Reviews

Erin Larkin, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 93/100.The wine is salty, fine and sedate—the characters are all in balance with each other. I love this wine from this small producer. It is intense and concentrated, shaped by savory phenolics and loaded with crunchy New Zealand acidity. This speaks of the place in a clear, unfettered voice, and it's brilliant for that.

VINOUS - Rebecca Gibb MW: 91/100. The 2024 Sauvignon Blanc is open and richly fruited with mid-palate richness. It offers tropical flavours and elderflower notes with flecks of green pepper and jalapeño. Despite the ripeness of fruit, there's still plenty of acidity and an assured grip on the finish.

Tasting Note

Deliciously aromatic with scents of honeydew melon and orange blossom, delicately infused with herb garden botanicals. A bright, seasonal expression, with juicy lemon and steely cassis flavours and a generously textured palate garnished with a flourish of pastis and wildflowers. A wine with impressive structure and depth, this is Marlborough sauvignon blanc with the volume turned down a notch.

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Additional information

Wine type: White wine

Grape varial: 100% Sauvignon Blanc

Food match:  Serve as an aperitif, with seafood, salads and vegetables

Vineyards: Marlborough, New Zealand. Fruit was sourced from several prime vineyard sites in Marlborough’s Southern Valleys and the central Wairau Plains (specifically Woodbourne, Renwick and Rapaura). Soil types vary from the young alluvial soils of Rapaura and Renwick, which contain high proportions of New Zealand’s ubiquitous greywacke river stones, to the older and denser clay-loams of the Southern Valleys.

Winemaking: Harvested largely by machine during cool (often cold) night-time conditions, the fruit was picked earlier than normal at high sugar levels over a 3-week period, commencing 16 March. Transported directly to our winery in the Omaka Valley, fruit was lightly pressed to yield a modest volume of high-quality juice. The juice was cold-settled and racked prior to fermentation, which was primarily carried out in stainless steel tanks with cultured yeast. All individual vineyard batches were left on lees until late June, when the blend was assembled. The wine was bottled in early August.

Alcohol: 13.5% vol

Wine style: dry

Total acidity: 6.8 g/l

Bottle size: 0.75l

Notice: contains sulphites

Cellaring potential: 2027+

Closure: Screwcap

Ingredients: Grapes, antioxidant: ascorbic acid; preservative: sulphites. Bottled in a protective atmosphere.

Produced and bottled by: Greywacke Vineyards, Renwick Rd, Marlborough, New Zealand

Distributor: FrischeParadies GmbH & Co. KG, Geschäftsbereich Weinwerk Frankfurt, Lärchenstraße 80, 65933 Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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