Bouquet
Subtle Sauvignon fruit, quite expressive and minerally.
Palate
Creamy and elegant. Fine, slate like flavours with good length and texture.
Vintage Conditions
2008 saw timely December and January rainfall followed by warm dry days and cool nights. Harvest dates were earlier than normal.
Winemaking
Estate Sauvignon Blanc is selected from four distinct sections of estate vineyard at Dixons Creek. All cane pruned, shoot thinned and hand picked. Fruit is whole bunch crushed and pressed until there is nothing left in the skins, the phenolics being an important textural component in the wine. The wine is roughly racked to older casks with lots of solids. The wine is allowed to ferment naturally and part of the wine undergoes malolactic fermentation. Lots of battonage over a five month period. The phenolics we extract during partial crushing and subsequent pressing are vital to producing wines with texture and minerality. This combined with hand tendered vineyards, hand picking and sorting, a little ‘roughing up’ with a crusher and the use of older casks, produces a style with some unique characters.
