Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc is a white grape, that has become incredibly popular, with increased plantings in Australia over the last 10 years. It grows best in the cooler wine regions.

Yarra Valley, Adelaide Hills, Margaret River, Orange in New South Wales and Tasmania, are all regions which produce wonderful examples of Sauvignon Blanc. The coolest vintages have “grassy”, gooseberry characters, whereas, warmer vintages show more passionfruit flavour, but still with the trademark zingy acidity. In Margaret River, Sauvignon Blanc is often blended with Semillon, this creates a perfect partnership and a fuller style of wine. In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand`s trademark grape.

Sauvignon Blanc is an important white grape in France, especially Bordeaux and the Loire Valley. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux, where it is blended with Sémillon to produce Bordeaux Blancs and Cru Classé White Graves. Elsewhere in Bordeaux it is also blended with Sémillon, to produce the amazing dessert wines of Sauternes. In the Loire Valley and particularly on the chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé. The wines produced are very different to New World equivalents, they tend to be less pungent, more retrained, mineral with smoky, gun flint notes.

After initial problems, it is now grown very successfully in Chile. The wines are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character.

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ASTROLABE 'VOYAGE' SAUVIGNON BLANC 2010, 750ml (Bottle)

An outstanding blend of cool Awatere and warmer Wairau fruit.
Powerful gooseberry, greengage, capsicum, passionfruit and lime peel aromas
Medium to full bodied with strong gooseberry, passionfruit and currant flavours, a hint of freshly- cut red capsicum, and a refreshingly smooth lingering and crisp finish.

DOG POINT SECTION 94 SAUVIGNON BLANC 2008,

Section 94 is Dog Point's barrel-fermented Sauvignon, in the mould of Cloudy Bay's Te Koko. An utterly exceptional new release.
Floral, tropical and citrussy, with complex lees-stirred, sancerre-like aromas.
Though very varietal, there is a texture and minerality which raises it above the crowds of sauvignon.

LAWSON DRY HILLS SAUVIGNON BLANC 2010, 750ml (Bottle)

The grapes for this wine were sourced from seven vineyards, all within Marlborough's Wairau and Waihopai valleys, and represent a broad cross section of soil types and micro-climates, providing us with a diverse range of aromas, flavours and textures, five of these vineyards are on the southern side of the Wairau Valley, where varying proportions of clay in the soils produce wines that have lifted passionfruit aromas, great concentration and crisp acidity.
The nose displays intense aromas of ripe gooseberry and passionfruit followed by some tropical fruit and lime notes.
Excellent concentration with mouthfilling flavours of gooseberry and passionfruit followed by a crisp zesty citrus and mineral finish. Long aftertaste of gooseberry, passionfruit and citrus.