Spy Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2023

Aroma Lifted floral notes, with hints of citrus fruits. Palate Distinctive flavours of passionfruit and lime intermingled with layers of minerality, finishing with a fresh mouth-watering acidity.

Perfectly positioned at 41.3 degrees S, a latitudinal mid-point within the world’s wine belt, Marlborough lies on a comparable latitude to many of the world¹s longest established wine regions. But its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, prevailing winds and isolation from continental hot air masses, creates a temperate maritime climate with much cooler summers and milder winters than those experienced in its northern hemisphere latitudinal equivalents.

Although blessed with one of the sunniest and driest climates in New Zealand, Marlborough’s heat is tempered throughout the summer months by easterly sea breezes that cool the vineyards throughout the day. The lengthy mild and dry autumn season that follows provides ideal conditions for the long slow ripening of grapes prior to vintage. This cool viticultural climate characteristic of the upper Loire Valley, northern Burgundy and Champagne promotes flavour purity with stronger and more vibrant fruit flavours. In Marlborough the effect is magnified by the regions significant diurnal temperature range commonly at 10 degrees C/50 degrees F temperature variation between the cool nights and sunny days of autumn. Such extreme variation slows the development of sugars, preserves the natural acidity in the grapes and gives rise to the extraordinarily intense varietal characters and succulent ripe fruit flavours for which Marlborough wines are renowned.

Harvested at peak flavour maturity. Gentle juice extraction, cold settled and fermented in stainless steel tanks and a portion in older oak with a range of aromatic yeasts.