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Astrolabe Awatere Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2023

New Zealand, Awatere Valley
Sauvignon Blanc
Astrolabe Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023
Astrolabe Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020
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Description

AROMA/BOUQUET Focused aromas of jalapeño, nettle, lime zest, lemongrass and fresh herbs.

PALATE A linear, pure wine with clean flavours of currants, gooseberry and citrus. Finishes savoury, crisp and dry.

Awards

5 stars Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide

94 pts The Real Review

Double Gold Global Fine Wine Challenge

90 pts James Suckling

2021 Vintage
96 Points / Oz Clarke / Three Wine Men / "More than any other winery Astrolabe have demonstrated to me the sheer excitement of Awatere fruit. Above all, they have revelled in the joys of green flavours, nature’s colour of freshness, of uplifting acidity and springtime bloom. This is packed with 2021 ripeness but it’s a brilliant juicy ripeness of green apple flesh, grapefruit and lime leaves, made richer by a wild combo of marrow jam and white peach and its bracing acidity glamourized by fresh-plucked hillside herb aromas." JAN 22
95 Points / Cameron Douglas M.S. / camdouglasms.com /"Fragrant and exacting bouquet, savoury, and fresh. Citrus and white stone fruits, salty air, fresh and dried herbs with a rocky mineral complexity. On the palate - delicious, tense and youthful, a core of fruit with flavours of lemon and grapefruit, white fleshed stone fruits, a savoury dried herb complexity and lengthy salivating salty finish. A delicious and vivacious wine with a core of fruit and varietal power. Best drinking from purchase and through 2025." JUL 21

Certifications

VegetarianVegan
Other

Alcohol

13.5%

Analytical data

0.0 g/l residual sugar
7.3 g/l acidity
3.3 pH

Bob Campbell, MW - The Real Review

Vineyard

VITICULTURE Climate: The 2020–2021 growing season was warmer than normal, though cooler than two of the recent very warm years of vintages 2018 and 2019. Little rain fell from December to late March, and water deficit conditions prevailed. Cold and wet Spring flowering conditions resulted in fewer berries per bunch and significantly reduced yields — about 70% of normal. Above average sunshine and heat, coupled with the light crop, gave a record early harvest. The vine canopies survived the arid weather, largely due to the light fruit load, and fungal disease was largely non-existent. Wines from the vintage tend to have good concentration.

Soils: Gently undulating, well-drained, deep silt loams and moderately deep sandy loams of greywacke alluvium.

Vinification

WINEMAKING The fruit was machine harvested in cool evening conditions, de-stemmed and lightly pressed with minimal skin contact. Clear, cold-settled juice was fermented in stainless steel vats at low temperatures, using neutral wine yeast strains to allow the powerful fruit flavours to dominate. Bottled 11th June, 2021.

Was malolactic fermentation used: no
Was high-solid fermentation used: no

Bottling

Closure: Screw top

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