Tasting Notes

A wine of great presence showing full fruit, herbaceous and earth character. Litchis, gooseberries, pears and winter melon held together with taut rounded acids.

Winemaker Comments

With an early start to the 2007 harvest, we had already part picked our sauvignon blanc when the unexpected heavy rains fell in the 2nd week in Feb. We delayed further harvest for 2 weeks until the flavours had returned to the grapes. This meant that the grapes were then picked at a balling higher than previous years which gives a fuller mouthfeel with a slightly higher alcohol. Although the style is also more tropical (which is the current fashion), the very favourable growing season has meant that, even at this riper level, we were also able to preserve some of the steely, capsicum, pyrazine aspect for which nitida is so well known.