Giesen Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2017 (c/c)

Description

Dry

This Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is aromatically expressive and generously flavoured with freshly cut herbs, scrumptious tropical fruit with subtle notes of blackcurrant leaf.

Summer started early in Marlborough, with warm weather leading to good flavour development, indicating the potential for great wine. Good rainfall from October onwards was a welcome break from several dry seasons. The temperature cooled over flowering reducing yield predictions and helping balance crops. Expecting a later harvest than typical, our viticulturists chose to drop more fruit over the growing period, ensuring ripening. Despite rain over harvest, our earlier decision to reduce cropping meant we picked full-flavoured fruit in great condition.

The fruit we select from the Wairau Valley adds brightness, tropical and citrus flavours, as well as tighter acidity to our Giesen Estate Sauvignon Blanc blend.
Compared to the Wairau Valley, the Awatere Valley is slightly cooler, drier, windier with higher elevation. The fruit selected from the Awatere Valley for this wine adds fullness, richness, the tropical notes are more grilled, herbal notes are more dry.

As soon as it arrived in the winery the fruit was de-stemmed and gently pressed. Specially selected yeasts were added to the juice to start fermentation which took approximately three weeks at temperatures from 12 - 16 deg.C.

Food Pairing: The winemakers suggest pairing the Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc with a Thai green chicken curry and fresh coriander.