Clark Estate Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
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2010
750 ml
White
Still Wine
New Zealand , Malbourough
Sauvignon blanc
Table Wine
13.5 %
0-5 g/l
Balanced
Dry
Unoaked
Ready to Drink
88
AROMA: - This fruit driven wine is intensely aromatic and displays pungent overtones of passion fruit and gooseberry layered with stone fruit, lime-citrus and tomato leaf and hints of guava and nettle. PALATE: - Immediately the fruitiness of this wine fills the mouth and balances perfectly with the juicy acidity that refreshes the palate. Strong, upfront passion fruit and pineapple flavours blend well with the typical Awatere Valley minerality of the back palate.
100% Sauvignon Blanc
Through intense canopy management and an in-depth knowledge of the different soils of our vineyard we were able to pick on three separate dates to maximise fruit maturity and therefore flavour. All fruit was machine harvested and processed as quickly as possible to preserve all the flavour captured throughout the season.
5th, 14th and 19th April 2010
Machine harvested
Each parcel of fruit was handled with extreme care once safely in the winery. Using various different yeasts, all ferments were taken through to dryness under cool conditions. 50% of the wine was left on yeast lees for 3 months to add complexity and texture and the other 50% had the clear wine racked off all lees. The 2 were blended together in August to create a complete and balanced wine.
3.27
7.2 g/l