Giesen The August Sauvignon Blanc 2021

With a tropical nose featuring passionfruit, guava and lime leaves, this is a multi-dimensional wine layered with toasty almonds, fresh brioche and incredible flinty notes. A carefully selected mix of seasoned German & French oak provides complexity and elegance.

Fruit was sourced from our iconic Old Dillions Point site to craft the 2021 ‘The August’. Located in the lower Wairau subregion of Marlborough bordering the Opawa stream. The vineyard is dry farmed relying on the vines well-established roots to maintain water and nutrient supply.

Giesen created this old-world Sauvignon Blanc style and have been refining it since the inaugural 2009 vintage release in 2010. The wine is crafted to show a richer expression of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and is made to showcase cellaring potential. Complexity, depth of aroma and flavour are a result of low-yielding vines, hand harvesting, barrel fermentation, and extended maturation on lees. After hand picking, the fruit was whole bunch pressed to enhance flavour and retain acidity and purity. 80% of the free run juice was put in tanks before gravity filling to neutral 1000 litre German oak Fuder barrels with the remainder going to older French oak ‘hogsheads’. The wine was lightly filtered before bottling in February 2023. It will continue to reward cellaring for 10 years.