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James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013
Pfalz, Germany. The grapes are harvested with up to five selective pickings by hand. They're crushed and then macerated between 12 to 24 hours before undergoing spontaneous fermentation. The wines are aged in traditional oval-shaped oak or chestnut barrels ranging from 300 to 2400 litres, with up to nine months on the lees . They are lightly filtered and bottled just before next harvest...
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Marlborough, New Zealand. Being a dryer style (6g/L residual sugar) it has a great drinkability due to the freshness on the palate. Pear and citrus notes with crisp acid backbone and length of flavour...
Marlborough, New Zealand. The grapes were crushed to different fermenters allowing a range of components for blending. The wines were plunged daily allowing the soft tannins to emerge in the wine. All components were aged in oak until blending which added greater flavour and softness to the wine. Ripe cherry and mocha flavours, fine tannin structure with a soft mouthfeel and good length...
Marlborough, New Zealand. Parcels of wine were selected for blending that produced a varietal and classic Sauvignon Blanc. All components were kept on yeast lees as long as possible until blending, adding greater flavour and softness to the wine...
Gisborne, New Zealand. A bright fruited, expressive nose with notes of dark cherry, juniper berry and fine burnished leather, yet with a subtle hint of roses. Savoury touches add complexity to the svelte palate and the taste is firm and alert with a lively mineral edge to balance. To soften the mouth-feel this wine has been fined with our own free-range egg whites, the yokes going to the kitchen for other culinary use...
Gisborne, New Zealand. With aromas of fresh lime zest and fragrant gardenias, this wine is softened by a natural malo-lactic fermentation which gives warmth and deliciousness to the taste. The wine will mature over a long time, yet now has flavours of fine wool and bush honey including quince and ripe bouche pear with a long tingling aftertaste...