This aromatic wine shows lifted flavours of blackcurrant with underlying notes of wet stone and thyme. The palate is elegant yet full with sufficient weight and texture, balanced by a flinty minerality.
A fantastic match with foods such as cheese salad, poultry dishes and a wide range of seafood dishes including freshly shucked natural oysters, prawns, green lip mussels and creamy scallops.
Awards and Accolades
2013 Vintage: BRONZE - Sommelier Wine Awards 2013
90 Points - Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate "Made with fruit that comes 100% from the Seaview Vineyard, the Yealands Estate 2013 Sauvignon Blanc shows off lovely grapefruit peel and peach skin notes, crushed stones and dill seed. Light to medium-bodied and showing great tension, it has tons of nicely balanced citrus and herbal flavors before it finishes long."
From the Winery
Our Seaview Vineyard in the Awatere Valley is exposed to some of the toughest growing conditions in Marlborough; high sunshine and wind, cool nights and low rainfall which produces a smaller, thicker skinned berry with intense fruit flavours. This wine is a blend of four different blocks on the property – two warmer, sheltered inland blocks and two coastal blocks. The wine brings together in harmony the diverse spectrums of the blocks; the warmer sites contributing the expressive aromatics and the cooler sites giving the mineral backbone and length.
Four parcels from the Seaview Vineyard were selected for this wine and harvested individually over three days. The fruit was crushed, de-stemmed then pressed gently prior to cold settling for 72 hours. The clear juice was then racked off and each parcel was fermented separately using two different yeasts. A long cool fermentation followed to capture and enhance the pure aromatics. The parcels were then kept on lees for a period of three months, with some stirring to help gain texture and structure. The wine was then blended, stabilised and filtered prior to bottling.
