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Buy OnlineIncluded in the Appellation Marlborough Wine 2025 Annual Collection
The Clos Henri Vineyard near Renwick is owned by Henri Bourgeois, a leading, family-owned producer in the Loire Valley, which feels this wine expresses ‘a unique terroir and a French winemaking approach’. A sophisticated and distinctive Sauvignon Blanc.
Winery notes (2025 Vintage)
"Here at Clos Henri, we are fortunate to cultivate vines on a single vineyard ‘domaine’. Our Estate wines are crafted as homage to the diversity of the vineyard terroirs, being made from an assemblage of different parcels from our three soils. We hope to transport you to our Estate, with these wines which celebrate the best of our vineyards with elegant minerality and offer a pure expression of Marlborough.
Fresh, mineral and zesty, the 2025 Estate Sauvignon Blanc bursts with bright citrus aromas of mandarin and yuzu blossom. The palate is light and refreshing, flavours of pineapple, peach and meyer lemon zest abound. Juicy acidity balances the intensity of a dry season’s fruit-forward notes. 2025 showcases an excellent purity of place, with a lingering mineral finish.
Following the French tradition, our vineyard is planted in high density. This encourages competition between vines and restrains vigour; ensuring grapes divert their energy into the grapes (rather than the canopy) – resulting in concentrated berries. Dry farming and organic management practices also allow us to ensure natural vine balance is achieved by stressing the vines just to the right level. This forces the roots to go deeper in the soil, obtaining the purest expression of our terroir.
After the grapes are machine harvested, we gently press them and separate our free run from the hard pressings using press fractions. After three days of settling, the juice is racked off its lees and fermented in stainless steel tanks to retain purity of fruit and flavour. The wine is then aged on fine yeast lees for three months, during which we employ the use of lees stirring, which allows the wine to stabilise naturally and gain complexity. The resulting wine is textural, complex and round, showcasing our unique terroirs.
17/20 Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com, November 2025 (2025 Vintage)
"The first of the Appellation Marlborough Selection of 12 wines (this is the 6th one I have tasted) where I have detected a touch of smoky/stony reduction. As well as citrus and green fruits, and really intense flavours. Higher alcohol than some but it shows off the flavour and depth of the wine. Firm texture, fresh acidity and lots of personality. Stands out from the crowd for its complexity. Mandarin – fruit and pith – and an intense citrus purity but still quintessentially Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Long, stony finish and nicely dry."
Reviews for the 2024 vintage below…
93/100 Erin Larkin, RobertParker.com, Wine Advocate, June 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"The 2024 Sauvignon Blanc is ripe and concentrated on the nose, with persimmon and tangelo, lemon rind and green apple. In the mouth, the wine is possessed of an array of flavours, from salted nuts, almond meal, vanilla pod and caper brine right through to a cavalcade of citrus fruits and a suggestion of coriander/cilantro. This is eminently sophisticated, yet it delivers the Marlborough intensity and focus of acidity and fruit. It's excellent."
93/100 James Suckling.com (2024 Vintage)
"Very fresh and clean with a mountain stream-like transparency. It’s light-bodied but has a density and tension as well as subtle and vivid flavors of Meyer lemons and crushed stone."
