"Beautifully fruited & immediately appealing" Wine Orbit
"Succulent & vibrant, delivers pristine fruit flavours, with fine texture" Wine Orbit
A delightful wine pairing well with fresh green-lipped mussels or Caesar salad
Whalebone Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2017




Whalebone Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2017
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Awarded 91/100 Points
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
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"Beautifully fruited and immediately appealing, the bouquet shows green rockmelon, nectarine, basil and lemon zest characters. The palate is succulent and vibrant, and delivers pristine fruit flavours and fine texture, superbly balanced by refreshing acidity. Excellent value and great drinking. At its best: now to 2019." Sam Kim. Sept 2017.
Whalebone Bay is a colloquial term given to the shores of Port Underwood in Marlborough, that are littered with old whalebone remnants. It was here in the mid -1800s that whaling was in full swing. The pioneering spirit and uncompromising attitude of these people is reflected today by the dedication of Marlborough grape growers to producing top quality fruit.
The fruit for this Whalebone Bay Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from carefully selected vineyard sites within Marlborough. It’s a lively, fresh wine with a lifted nose of blackcurrant budpassionfruit and citrus blossom. The palate displays flavours of freshly cut capsicum, passionfruit and fresh stonefruit. Subtle herbaceous notes add complexity and the finish is clean and crisp. Recommended for drinking now or over the next 1-2 years.
Food Pairing: A delightful wine with fresh greenlipped mussels or caesar salad.
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Fantastic value, great service
Birchwood - 17/12/2018
Great service, pricing and selection. Blackmarket you nailed it once again. Brittany managed the wine for our wedding in March 2018 - superb job indeed!!!
Brian - 14/12/2018
Top Savi. Amazing value
Trevor - 08/12/2018
Incredibly lovely wine to our taste. Super value. Love your mystery wines haven’t had a dud yet.
Alessandro - 08/12/2018
Nice wine at a very nice price.
Stephen - 07/12/2018
Lovely wine, will buy more
Scales - 16/11/2018
Lovely wine.
Shirley - 15/11/2018
great wine
Fraser - 12/04/2018
Well priced every day fruity wine that punches above its weight
Steve - 25/12/2018
great value!!!
Gary - 23/12/2018
One of my old time favourites!
Lynda - 19/12/2018
Even hardened chardonnay drinkers like it
Warwick - 13/12/2018
Great value
Janette - 10/12/2018
A really easy and more-ish wine to drink. Crisp and different from usual Marlborough S/B's. Would purchase again
Lois - 09/12/2018
Very enjoyable
Diane - 06/11/2018
Always a delicious Sauvignon Blanc, most enjoyable.
Tony - 06/09/2018
As always very drinkable
Peter - 13/06/2018
Certainly didn't have the passionfruit aroma or flavour that the writeup said. Have had other vintages of this wine previously and have been very good
Timothy - 24/12/2018
Easy drinking
Stephen - 17/11/2018
Excellent price for a quite reasonable wine.
John - 09/11/2018
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