Montford Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2023

An alluring and perfumed bouquet with white florals, fresh herbs and lime and grapefruit notes. The palate is pure fruited with lime, mint, anise and blackcurrant characters. Finely textured and beautifully balanced, this wine possesses a wet stone and talc minerality, which compliments the concentrated and elegant fruit profile.

45% of the fruit for this wine comes from the Wairau Bar Home Vineyard. The soils of this block are either 1) agricultural silt loams overlying alluvial deposits or 2) sand and shingles of the Seaside blocks which tends to give passionfruit and floral flavours with nice bright acids, and often touches of fresh herb and salinity. 30% comes from the naturally low cropping Redwood Hills Awatere Vineyard, which produces wines with elegance, minerality and length. The Alabama Road Vineyard (13%) and the Waihopai Valley Blampied Vineyard (12%) play lesser roles in the blend. Alabama contributes early ripening fruit with intense stone fruit characters. The Blampied Vineyard is later ripening and provides fresh citrus and passionfruit notes with crisp acidity.

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