"This top [Mystery Vinyard's] Sauvignon Blanc has a complex style. This says less about the grape and more about the origin and winemaking intent to create a complex, textural and age-worthy white. Glossy lemon citrus and baked apple fruits. Plenty of depth and smooth richness. Evolving with interest. Drink now" James Suckling, Nov 2017

"Made from grapes harvested from low yielding vines before being fermented in barrel using wild yeast then maturation on lees. It's a big and quite complex wine with a strong emphasis on 'struck match' reductive characters and toasty, brioche lees, although pineapple and tree fruit flavours are also evident. A serious food wine with development potential" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Nov 2016

"This distinctive wine is handpicked and barrel fermented, it is a commanding, weighty wine, complex and dry, with highly concentrated tropical-fruit flavours, slightly nutty, tightly structured and long. Maturing very gracefully, its currently in full stride" Michael Cooper, May 2017

"Another high-end Sauvignon Blanc that sees some oak aging, this is a rich, ripe wine, loaded with nectarine and citrus fruit. The oak framing is barely noticeable, but serves to highlight the silky texture and adds a pleasant grilled note on the long finish" Joe Czerwinski, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, March 2018

"Barrel-fermented and offers good peach, grapefruit and toast notes with hints of honeyed almond, jasmine and elderflowers. The medium bodied plate lends lovely texture, with great richness and length. It should cellar gracefully for the next 4-6 years" Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, 2016

"This is tight and fresh. Really linear with fresh, focused citrus fruit. There a compact quality to the fruit with great precision. Some stoney mineral notes, too, and good acidity" Jamie Goode, UK Wine Writers, Jan 2018

Fruit from two of this Mystery Winery's iconic vineyard make up this Mystery 2013 Sauvignon Blanc. The first of these two Mystery sites adds rich ripe tropical notes, steely, wet pebble aromas and purity. Whilst the second adds herbal notes, richness and structure. In totality this creates a Sauvignon Blanc with a tropical nose featuring passionfruit and lime leaves. Its multi-dimensional and layered with toasty almonds, fresh brioche and incredible flinty notes. Well-integrated oak provides complexity and elegance.

This Mystery Vienyard created this exclusive international Sauvignon Blanc style and have been refining it ever since its augural vintage in 2010. The wine is crafted to show a richer expression of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and is made to showcase cellaring potential. This Mystery wine, like its namesake, pushes boundaries.

In the vineyard these Mystery winemakers employ a meticulous 'hands on' practice, dropping fruit, hand pruning and handpicking. The Mystery vineyards where the fruit for this Mystery Sauvignon was source is situated in Marlborough’s famed Wairau Valley, which in 2013 started the growing season with cooler temperatures. However, when flowering occurred in early December, temperatures were two degrees higher than the average. Summer enjoyed long hours of sunshine with little rain, and as a consequence the vines were happy and healthy. While the region had long sunshine hours, the temperatures weren’t too hot, which meant fruit was able to ripen beautifully, retaining both flavour and acidity.

The care shown in the vineyard was continued in the winery with winemaking that included wild fermentation and integrated oak regimes. The fruit was whole bunch pressed to enhance flavour and retain acidity and purity. 80% of the free run juice was put in tanks before gravity filling second and third use 1000 litre German oak Fuder barrels with the remainder going to older French oak barriques. Fermentation was left to happen naturally with wild yeasts to add extra texture and build depth and length. This attention to detail crafts a Sauvignon Blanc unlike any other; character-filled and complex, one that rewards cellaring. Opening this Sauvignon Blanc makes every occasion special. It will continue to reward careful cellaring for another 10 years.