te Pa Sauvignon Blanc 2023

The 2021 te Pa Sauvignon Blanc is beautifully perfumed with notes of grapefruit, guava, jasmine and nettles. The palate is concentrated and precise, with lime and Nashi pear flavours complimented by subtle hints of dried herb and passionfruit. This wine possesses crisp refreshing acidity and a unique mineral saline finish.

The fruit from the MacDonald Home Vineyard came from some of the historically best performing blocks in the vineyard. The Seaside Block is compositionally higher in sand and shingle and has less organic matter. This block tends to give passionfruit and tropical flavours with nice bright acids. Block 2 and 10 have richer alluvial and sedimentary soils, which supports a healthy canopy and gives more tropical and exotic fruit flavours. The naturally low vigour, low yielding Redwood Hills Vineyard in the Awatere Valley produces wines with strong textural and mineral elements. This cooler hillside site results in wines which exhibit concentration, fresh acidity and great length. Our Alabama Road Vineyard is located 6 km up the Wairau Valley on moderately fertile, free draining soils. It is a warm, sheltered site and the fruit ripens early, and expresses great intensity of flavour with stone fruit and citrus charaters coming to the fore.

The blocks that made the te Pa blend were selected for their great fruit expression as well as low cropping, and early ripening characteristics. The blocks were fermented separately, mostly in stainless steel tanks, before blending and then aging on light lees. A small percentage of new oak was used in the blend.