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Wine Details
Price:
$18.00 per bottle
Description:
This vintage’s wine is an interlaced blend of three Wairau Valley vineyard sites and one from the flavor-intense Awatere. The former supplied gooseberry, tropical fruit, celery and fresh-cut herbs while the latter provided green nettles and the support of minerality and crisp acidity.
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Varietal Definition
Sauvignon Blanc:
Sauvignon Blanc is widely grown in California — at over 15,000 acres, it’s now the third most planted variety — and often assumes the moniker ‘Fume Blanc’. This popular synonym, credited to Napa’s Robert Mondavi, derives from the grape’s historic home of Pouilly in France’s Upper Loire Valley, where Sauvignon Blanc is the dominant varietal and goes locally by the name of ‘Blanc Fumé’. When treated with respect and afforded suitable growing conditions, Sauvignon Blanc is one of the wine world’s darlings. Steely, racy acidity, green, gooseberry fruit, asparagus and a grassy, herbaceous character characterize dry wines made from this grape.
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