• Dry style
• Passionfruit
• Crushed herbs
• Long refreshing finish

"As wild and unfettered as ever. Pineapple, lime, aniseed, capsicum, cinnamon spice and smoky flinty happy-kid-cap-gun stuff floating about. Light to medium bodied, glossy and slick, but flinty and smoky, with juicy tropical fruit and crisp snow pea snappiness. It’s precise, energetic, and finishes very long. Delivers the goods, and has it large at the same time" Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, Oct 2020

"From the Bridge Pa Triangle subregion. Includes 15% of semillon and sauvignon gris. It's 100% barrel fermented with a year in oak. Attractively textural sauvignon blanc with oyster-shell, mineral, grapefruit, and nectarine flavours. An exquisite, mouthpuckering wine with cellaring potential. Exquisite" Bob Campbell MW, Mar 2021

"Pristine and elegant, yet intensely powerful, showing green apple, fig, lime zest and subtle oatmeal characters on the nose. The palate displays excellent focus and vibrancy, wonderfully supported by fine texture and bright acidity, finishing impressively long and engaging. At its best: now to 2032" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2021

"A captivating bouquet with its distinctive barrel ferment attact, fruits aromas of grapefruit, apples, pears and peach. Lees adds a complexity and harmony as well as complexity. Crisp, refreshing and dry. There's a mix of dried herb and spice as well as fresh herb. Lovely textures with a fine lees and fruit tannin layers. Delicious, fresh and lengthy. Best drinking from today and through 2025+" Cameron Douglas MS, Feb 2021

"A complex and composed, barrel-fermented style that has wide-ranging aromas, from dried flowers through citrus and tropical fruit to fresh almond. The palate has very elegant, long and intense style with grilled-lemon and passion-fruit flavors. Impressively long and layered palate. Drink now" Nick Stock, jamessuckling.com, Dec 2020

Diamond-clear with lime green highlights, Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc ’19 gives ripe tropical fruit, complexity and length for days. Aromas of yuzu, guava, kaffir lime and luscious white nectarine gives way to palate of passionfruit, grapefruit, gooseberry, pear and crushed herbs, with just hint of sea-salt and smoke at the end of the long dry finish. A wine with great ageing potential as well as concentrated fruit, walking a long green tightrope between elegant and refreshing.

Since 1984, Cape Crest has developed an international following for it unique expression of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. Barrel Fermented, with a touch of semillon and Sauvignon Gris, it is concentrated and complex with toast, citrus blossam, pear and stonefruit characters.

The separate parcels were each destemmed and lightly crushed, then cooled before a brief period of skin contact. Following pressing and cold-settling, they were run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation. The resulting wines were aged on lees, with regular stirring, for a further eight months before bottling in January 2020. The blend was returned to tank for further maturation on fine lees, before fining and bottling. Cape Crest ’19 is a blend of 86% Sauvignon Blanc, 8% Semillon and 6% Sauvignon Gris.

The fully ripe grapes for Cape Crest ’19 were hand harvested from individual plots within Te Mata Estate’s vineyards between 15 March and 21 March 2019. Cape Crest and its gannet symbol refer to Cape Kidnappers, home to the world’s largest mainland colony of these remarkable marine birds.

Establish in 1896, Te Mata Estate remains family owned, producing internationally recognised wines exclusively from its historic, Hawke's Bay Vineyards.