Palliser Estate Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc 2025

Description

Dry, Melon, Oak

"Delicious, fresh focused, ripe, varietal and tasty. A complete wine with core flavours of pineapple and cape gooseberry, some fresh herb ideas then mineral wet stones complexity. These ideas repeat through the palate with a nettles and a backbone of acidity promoting the variety, style and core fruit flavours. Best drinking from late 2025 through 2029" Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier, Oct 2025

An iconic Martinborough style of Sauvignon Blanc with vibrant tropical and citrus fruit characteristics. Pale lemon, bright and clear. A strikingly pure nose of guava, kiwifruit, apple, snow pea and passionfruit, with top notes of orange blossom and garam masala. Fresh and focused on the palate, with lime zest notes electrifying the generous fruit characters. Richly textural on the mid and back palate, the finish is long, dry and pleasingly complex, with notes of basil and other Mediterranean herbs.

59% of the fruit is from our Woolshed Vineyard, the balance from our Pencarrow Vineyard.

The fruit is harvested and gently crushed to tank, cold settled over 2 days and racked to tank and fermented leaving 2.82 g/litre of residual sugar giving added weight and texture to the wine. A 10% portion is fermented in old barrels. The wine then spends a further 2 months on lees before bottling.

Food Pairing: Excellent with fresh seafood, this will also be a perfect match for tomato bruschetta with mozarella and basil.