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Villa Maria Private Bin Sauvignon Blanc(2007)
WINEMAKER’S COMMENTS
This Sauvignon Blanc is bursting with ripe gooseberry, citrus lime, tropical melon and exotic herbal aromas. The wine’s layers of flavour excite and intrigue. It is a fresh and ripely flavoured wine with fantastic intensity, finishing with crisp and racy acidity.
WINEMAKING
The fruit parcels were harvested at varying levels of ripeness (between 21-24 brix) over a five week period. The fruit was crushed, pressed and cold settled at 6°C for 24 hours before being racked clean off lees for fermentation. Both neutral and aromatic yeast read more...
This Sauvignon Blanc is bursting with ripe gooseberry, citrus lime, tropical melon and exotic herbal aromas. The wine’s layers of flavour excite and intrigue. It is a fresh and ripely flavoured wine with fantastic intensity, finishing with crisp and racy acidity.
WINEMAKING
The fruit parcels were harvested at varying levels of ripeness (between 21-24 brix) over a five week period. The fruit was crushed, pressed and cold settled at 6°C for 24 hours before being racked clean off lees for fermentation. Both neutral and aromatic yeast read more...
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April 2008
- This Sauvignon Blanc is bursting with ripe gooseberry, citrus lime, tropicalmelon and exotic herbal aromas. The wine's layers of flavor excite and intrigue.It is a fresh and ripely flavored wine with fantastic intensity, finishing withcrisp and racy acidity. Optimum cellaring: Enjoy now until 2010. Serving suggestion: Enjoy chilled with fresh seafood, shellfish, salads and vegetable dishes, or simply on its own.
- ccarpita
- Brooklyn, NY
- February 2008
- This was a good wine for it's value, wet citrus, good nose, accompanied seafood nicely.
- jephelan
- Highland Park, NJ
- February 2008
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No written review
- January 2008
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Sniffy-sniff: Passion fruit, hint of cat pee (characteristic of NZSB - not a bad thing)
Tastey-taste: Pineapples, pear, lime
Long, clean, crisp
- aronowm2
- Brooklyn, NY
- January 2008
- not much of a finish. great nose with peachy aromas. i do get the tropical aromas as the winemaker's notes say but not precisely melon. more like tropical punch.
