Auntsfield Single Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2025

Description

Dry, Melon, Passionfruit

"It's gorgeously expressed on the nose, with aromas of passionfruit, kaffir lime, rockmelon, and fresh herbs. The palate exhibits excellent concentration and fine flow, splendidly structured by beautifully pitched acidity, with a long and satisfying finish. At its best: now to 2032" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Sep 2025

"Fantastic bouquet and palate with layers of white fleshed orchard fruits and citrus, there’s a sweet ripe lime quality and core mineral quality suggesting river stone and pebble. Complex, taut, dry and fruity led by flavours of grapefruit then apple and peach. The mineral suggestion carries through the palate seamlessly. The frame of acidity and fine fruit tannins along with lees and a touch of fruit spice offer complexity as well as texture. Delicious wine with best drinking from late 2025 through 2029+" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Oct 2025

Pale straw. Lifted and pure aromas of fresh passionfruit, citrus blossom and lime. Notes of dried herbs, lemongrass, papaya and jalapeno add pungency and intensity to the aromatics.  Powerful, tight and elegant. This wine displays intense ripe fruit flavours of passionfruit juice and white peach, with citrus notes of lime and grapefruit pith. The palate has intense  concentration and generous weight, balanced by an underlying minerality and tight structure to shape a wine with lively tension and textural balance.

Auntsfield continues the proud heritage of Marlborough’s first vineyard and winery established in 1892. Our Single Vineyard wines are made from grapes grown at Auntsfield Estate. Each wine shows the distinctive characteristics of ripeness, texture and minerality - qualities unique to the ancient Greywacke rock and Loess clay soils of the vineyard. Sauvignon Blanc - Auntsfield Estate aims to produce a distinctive style of Sauvignon Blanc. The style is aimed towards texture, complexity and length, balancing the typical Marlborough fruit spectrum and aromatics with richness and mouth feel.

The 2025 season was characterised by excellent yields and a warm dry long Summer. Regular winter rainfall and a warm late spring encouraged optimal canopy growth and fruit set. Summer was dry but stayed relatively cool resulting in healthy vines with no disease or water stress. Many hours were spent throughout the season reducing yields to optimal levels. There was a slow progression into Autumn with a long, drawn-out ripening period where the fruit reached optimum ripeness in perfect harvest conditions.

Picked during cool evenings, fermentation at low temperatures in stainless steel tanks was
utilised to retain the fresh varietal aromatics with 10% fermented with indigenous yeast. After fermentation, the wine underwent an extended period of lees contact, adding texture and length to the wine. The result is a hand-crafted wine combining the bright fresh fruit characters with an underlying minerality and fine structure.