Blended from select, premium vineyard sites spread across the southern side of Marlborough’s Wairau Valley.
VARIETY
100% Sauvignon Blanc.
VINTAGE
Vintage 2017 delivered a smaller than predicted crop for Marlborough’s wine industry, ensuring the vibrant, fruit-driven wines the region is so well known for, were achieved. Summer started early with warm weather leading to good flavour development, indicating the potential for great wine. Our vineyard staff and winemakers spent plenty of time in those early days of the season, working out how to get the best balance from our vines – and ultimately into our wines. Nature threw in some challenges along the way, with a major November earthquake, a cool and windy summer and stints of rain in Autumn. Rigorous vineyard management and careful harvest decisions have ensured our Marisco wines have an exciting spectrum of flavours from our harvested grapes. A growing year of challenges – resulting in wines to remember!
WINEMAKING
Gentle fruit handling followed by a long, cool fermentation with select yeast strains has enabled a wine of great elegance and subtlety. An early release further guarantees this wine is enjoyed at its freshest and best.
Bright, lifted with quintessential Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc aromatics of lime leaf and lemon with a delicate fragrant thread of white citrus blossom. The palate too is fresh and bright offering up flavours of lemon – lime citrus zest coupled with an underlying streak of dried Provencal herbs, all neatly framed and sustained by a fine thread of balanced ripe acidity.
FOOD MATCHING
The ultimate aperitif but equally at home with most fresh seafood, summer salads and sheep or goats cheese.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
Crafted to enjoy whilst its flavours and vibrancy are at their peak; we recommend drinking this wine within 2 years of the vintage date.
ORIGIN
Blended from select, premium vineyard sites spread across the southern side of Marlborough’s Wairau Valley.
VARIETY
100% Sauvignon Blanc.
VINTAGE
Vintage 2017 delivered a smaller than predicted crop for Marlborough’s wine industry, ensuring the vibrant, fruit-driven wines the region is so well known for, were achieved. Summer started early with warm weather leading to good flavour development, indicating the potential for great wine. Our vineyard staff and winemakers spent plenty of time in those early days of the season, working out how to get the best balance from our vines – and ultimately into our wines. Nature threw in some challenges along the way, with a major November earthquake, a cool and windy summer and stints of rain in Autumn. Rigorous vineyard management and careful harvest decisions have ensured our Marisco wines have an exciting spectrum of flavours from our harvested grapes. A growing year of challenges – resulting in wines to remember!
WINEMAKING
Gentle fruit handling followed by a long, cool fermentation with select yeast strains has enabled a wine of great elegance and subtlety. An early release further guarantees this wine is enjoyed at its freshest and best.
ANALYSIS
Alcohol 12.5%
pH 3.12
Titratable Acidity 6.7g/L
Residual Sugar 5.0g/L
TASTING NOTE
Bright, lifted with quintessential Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc aromatics of lime leaf and lemon with a delicate fragrant thread of white citrus blossom. The palate too is fresh and bright offering up flavours of lemon – lime citrus zest coupled with an underlying streak of dried Provencal herbs, all neatly framed and sustained by a fine thread of balanced ripe acidity.
FOOD MATCHING
The ultimate aperitif but equally at home with most fresh seafood, summer salads and sheep or goats cheese.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
Crafted to enjoy whilst its flavours and vibrancy are at their peak; we recommend drinking this wine within 2 years of the vintage date.
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