2006 New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc

Vineyard and 2006 Season:

In a collaboration between myself and friends and family in "Marlborough', New Zealand's most famous growing region, we have managed to obtain fruit from one of the first vineyards ever planted in the area. This vineyard, with it's sandy soils over slate shingles, has become the most desirable location for fruit in the area. Capitello happily welcomes this wine into it's family. The perfect growing season allows us to hand pick fruit from the best block in the foot hill of this vineyard and get to the winery just down the road in time to express the full flavor and intensity that this varity can offer.

-Ray Walsh

Fruit and Fermentation:

The fruit harvested by hand on April 2nd, and whole cluster pressed to Stainless Steel fermenter tank. 10% of the juice was then drained into French Oak to ferment and go through Malolactic before being blended back to offer extra mouth feel and complexity to the finished wine.

Tasting Notes:

The dry rounded palate offering beautifully intense aromas of passion fruit, peach and pears and also a degree of minerality tones. In the mouth an excellent balance of exotic fruits, mouth filling texture with a hint of oak and crisp clean finish, demonstrating its regional integrity.

pH: 3.36

TA: 7.1 g/L

Alc: 13.2%

$18.00 per bottle

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