THE WINE

This white wine is pale in colour and has lifted tropical fruit aromas with notes of green bean and asparagus. This blend of tropical fruit and herbaceous characters follows through to the palate with racy acidity.  This refreshing wine is true in style to its cool-climate origin and is best consumed when young and fresh.

THE GRAPE VARIETY

Sauvignon Blanc is a French white grape variety originating in the picturesque Loire Valley in the central west of the country, where it is responsible for the aromatic, deeply flavoured dry whites of Sancerre and Pouilly Fume. Although a relative newcomer to Australia, it has settled well into its new environs, producing wines of depth, pungency, elegance and balanced freshness, especially when grown in areas enjoying cool ripening conditions like our Whitlands vineyard.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

The Sauvignon Blanc grapes used to make this wine were grown at our cool climate Whitlands vineyard which lies above the snowline in the Victorian Alps. There are variable picking dates for the grapes to capture the less ripe fruit for the more herbaceous characters and the slightly riper fruit for the tropical fruit characters. Harvest was from late March to early April at a range of baumé levels from 11.3º to 13.5º. The wine was bottled soon after fermentation with an alcohol of 12.5%, a pH of 3.1 and an acid level of 6.5 g/L.

SREVING SUGGESTIONS

This wine is well suited to light dishes such as a tomato, basil and bianco cheese salad, or baked fillet of trout served with steamed asparagus and a light drizzle of virgin olive oil.