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2010 Alexia Wairarapa Sauvignon Blanc

2010 Alexia Wairarapa Sauvignon Blanc
This vibrant, aromatic wine has flavours of gooseberry and limes, with a lively finish. We love to drink it with seafood and pasta dishes and delicious summer salads.  Unabashedly NZ in style, with gooseberry, ripe capsicum and passionfruit aromas and a fresh vibrant palate.

As Nick says: "This is a full-flavoured, soft example of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. It’s excellent with seafood dishes and salads, or simply by itself. Enjoy it over the next six months while it’s fresh and delicious."
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Winemaker Jane Cooper's notes:
Vineyard
The fruit for this wine is sourced from 20 hectares of Sauvignon Blanc plantings at our home vineyard at Opaki in the Wairarapa, as well as the Martinborough vineyard of Andy and Elaine Sutherland. These are young vines that carry a small crop of intensely flavoured grapes. We have several different blocks of Sauvignon Blanc where we use various canopy management techniques to provide us with a range of complex flavours from the grapes.

Winemaking
The focus in the winery is to capture the pure fruit flavours that come from the vineyard whilst adding complexity through our winemaking efforts to provide a multidimensional wine. This is achieved by tank fermenting the juice using yeasts that are able to ferment to low temperatures – preserving the essential fruit flavours. Selected batches are barrel fermented to add further complexity to the wine.


Nick Bulleid MW Tasting Note:
Colour
Pale lemon yellow
Nose
Intense sweet fruit, showing lychee, citrus and hints of cut grass
Palate
Starts crisp and lively, with plenty of ripe flavour. Finishes softly, with balanced acidity and good length.
Wine Details
Barrel No. ALESB10
Unit Size Bottle
Bottle Size 750mL
Bottle Closure Screwcap
Alcohol 13.0%
Serving Suggestion On its own or matched with smoked salmon, scallops or pan-fried fish with garden salads