Mt Difficulty
Sauvignon Blanc 2001

Ideal warm dry autumn conditions have resulted in both ripe tropical fruits and herbaceous flavours producing a Sauvignon Blanc in a typical New Zealand style. The wine displays ripe gooseberry flavours intermingled with cut grass and dried hay, this moves into a full mid-palate and then the wine finishes with lingering fresh gooseberries. This wine is ideal for pairing with white meats or just summer evening drinking.

Winemaking Considerations

The fruit for this wine comes from our Templars Hill Vineyard. The fruit was harvested on the 7^th of April in excellent condition. There was a good spectrum of flavours present in the fruit, which is what we look for from Sauvignon Blanc at harvest. The fruit was at 23.5^o Brix, 3.2 pH and with an acidity of 8gL^-1. The fruit was reductively handled during processing, racked clean and fermented cool in Stainless steel. These practices were all used to try to retain the natural varietal fruit spectrum and concentration of Sauvignon Blanc

Alc. 14%

T/A 7.5 gL-1

pH 3.35

Residual Sugar 5 gL-1