Greystone Sauvignon Blanc 2024 Organic [CD 94]

An excellent bouquet with concentration and power, mineral impacts and ripe fruity frame. Dry and delicious with flavours of peach and cape gooseberry, some pineapple or tropical fruit ideas, sweet hay and chalk, flowers and limestone. There’s a super fine dusty texture as part of the mouthfeel adding breadth to an already impressive wine on the palate. Delicious and distinctive with best drinking from 2025 through 2029. 94 Points - Cameron Douglas MS.

Winemaker's Notes

In our vineyard we grow two rare clones of Sauvignon Blanc ( 376 and 530 ), originally taken from the Loire Valley. This is very different from the rest of New Zealand, which generally uses a singular Bordeaux clone. Our vines produce much smaller bunches with golden coloured grapes - the MS Bordeaux tends to a heavier bunch size and more green tinged. Our clones give us beautiful fruit flavours of golden kiwifruit and guava. We settled the fresh juice after a gentle pressing. We ferment all of our Sauvignon in old French Oak barrels with wild yeast taking seven months to get through to dryness going through almost full MLF concurrently. This prolonged fermentation provides complexity and natural lees stirring adds texture and depth to the flavours. Blended and estate bottled without fining, just prior to the new harvest.