Press
Very lifted nose with herbaceous and lime characters. The palate is fresh and elegant with herbaceous notes, fresh apple and lime characters and a nice complexity on the finish.
Christelle Guibert Decanter Magazine, March 2010
90 - 4.5 Stars It's ripe and appealing on the palate displaying passionfruit, feijoa and mandarin characters with a hint of herbaceous notes. The palate is rounded and nicely textured with juicy acidity and a crisp dry finish. It's very approachable and friendly. At its best: now to 2011.
Sam KingWine Orbit, Issue 10, 2010
Top 10 Sauvignon Blanc.
60 Best New Zealand Wines 2010Matthew Jukes
Winemaking
The premium fruit for our Ben Morven Sauvignon Blanc comes off two vineyards on the southern side of the Wairau Valley. Our Ben Morven Road site with its older soils and low rainfall provides the generous, ripe characters of the wine while our St Maur site delivers the mouth-filling fruit flavours and lush texture. Both parcels of fruit are vinified seperately and then judiciously blended, the Ben Morven fruit being fermented in tank to retain the fresh, bright flavours while the St Maur grapes were wild yeast, barrel fermented for extra weight and complexity in the final wine.
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