Tussock Heights Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2011
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The export labelled Tussock Heights Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is produced for the international export market and is made by Simon Clark and exactly the same wine, under the Clark Estate label has won many an impressive accolade as listed below...
Award Winner 2011 Hong Kong Int'l Wine and Spirits Competition
"Quite a rich and creamy textured Sauvignon Blanc with classic Awatere mineral, tomato leaf and passion fruit flavours. Bone dry but nicely balanced with a pleasing hint of fruit sweetness. Classy wine."
4 stars - Bob Campbell MW
"Racy and juicy, this wine displays bold passionfruit and grapefruit aromas. In the palate you get bucketfuls of gooseberries combined with vibrant acidity. Big, ripe and thoroughly recommended."
4.5 stars, Top Tip - TiZwine.com
The Awatere Valley is known for its relatively harsh climate with strong winds and morning frosts in spring working to harden the vines for the high temperatures of summer followed by the cool nights in autumn. As a result the vines struggle and we are able to harvest small, well matured grapes of typical Awatere finesse and flavour.
The 2011 Sauvignon Blanc is a pure, sustainable, single vineyard Awatere Valley wine.
Clark Estate is a boutique family vineyard situated high in the Awatere Valley, Marlborough – a beautiful, picturesque spot at the top of New Zealand’s South Island.
Through intense canopy management and an in-depth knowledge of the different soils of our vineyard we were able to pick on three separate dates to maximise fruit maturity and therefore flavour. All fruit was machine harvested and processed as quickly as possible to preserve all the flavour captured throughout the season.
Each parcel of fruit was handled with extreme care once safely in the winery. Using various different yeasts, all ferments were taken through to dryness under cool conditions. 50% of the wine was left on yeast lees for 3 months to add complexity and texture and the other 50% had the clear wine racked off all lees. The 2 were blended together in August to create a complete and balanced wine.
This fruit driven wine is intensely aromatic, is pale straw in colour and has a fragrant aroma of gooseberry and black currant leaf layered with red capsicum and a touch of dried thyme. Immediately the fruitiness of this wine fills the mouth. The palate shows lime/grapefruit characters along with more tropical flavours such as melon and white peach. This wine has good mid palate concentration and is well balanced with juicy acidity and a lingering finish.
BOTTLE TOPS: STELVIN
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 13.5%