GREYWACKE WILD SAUVIGNON BLANC 2023

Included in the Appellation Marlborough Wine 2025 Annual Collection Top 12

Kevin Judd's stylish label gives great anticipation for what is to come. This is Sauvignon Blanc with a wild difference. It is full of exotic flavours and super rich fruit intricately wrapped in a deliciously creamy texture. Complexity from wild yeast fermentation and extended aging in older barrels complete the picture. Multi dimensional and long lasting, this release of Greywacke Wild Sauvignon Blanc rightfully deserves to sit alongside the other great proponents of this style: Te Koko and Section 94.

Double Gold Medal at the prestigious Global Fine Wine Challenge in Australia 2025

Judges' Comments
95/100 "Lovely complex nose which is very varietal yet also layered with barrel work and lees adding spice and creaminess. Nettle, capsicum fruit. Very smart, like a good Bordeaux blanc. The best of the barrel styles."

95/100 "Intense and attractive bouquet of toast, preserved lemon and struck match. Clean and bright, quite open-knit, juicy and expressive, with honeysuckle and passionfruit carried along by a backbone of crisp acidity. Long finishing, with flowers to the close."

Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"Aromas of rock melon, ginger, lime zest and toasted coconut abound. Lemon curd and tangelo flavours provide a juicy foundation to the expansive, full-flavoured palate. Lush and textural in style, the wine is well tempered by chalky oyster shell notes and a generous spine of acidity. A hands-off interpretation of Marlborough sauvignon blanc and an untamed, unique expression of the season and our Southern Valleys terroir.

Some vineyards were harvested by machine during cool (often cold) night time conditions and others by hand during the day. The grapes were lightly pressed to yield a modest volume of high-quality juice, which was then cold-settled prior to racking into French oak barriques, a small percentage of which were new. The juice was allowed to undergo spontaneous indigenous yeast fermentation, the tail end of which continued for well over six months. The wine had occasional lees stirring and approximately two-thirds underwent malolactic fermentation. It was transferred out of oak prior to the following harvest and left on yeast lees for a further six months. The wine was bottled in September 2024."

17/20 Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com, August 2025 (2023 Vintage)
"Openly aromatic with both classic Sauvignon Blanc fruit – grassy and herbal with a hint of cassis leaf – but also a creamy/mealy impression allied to a stony note. Unusual combination of creamy and mineral with the merest hint of oak spice. Lovely texture from the lees and the oak, gently chewy, rich, still very youthful and fresh and with a salty aftertaste. This is a wine that you can enjoy now but which ages very well."

Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2025 (2023 Vintage)
"A delicious wine, I could drink this all day long [well not quite], it’s delicious with a spicy power and pungency, cape gooseberry and lime, peach and hay, sage and lees. Dry, complex and textured with a backbone of acidity and freshness with a nice alate squeeze and core of fruit. Well made and ready to drink from day of purchase through 2029+."

93/100 Jamie Goode, WineAnorak.com, January 2026 (2022 Vintage)
"Southern Valleys and central Wairau Plains. Some hand harvest. Some oak, including a bit of new. This is layered, complex and quite crystalline, with some appealing citrus notes but also dried herbs, some rich pear and a touch of peachy richness. I like the texture: it’s multilayered with some subtle apple and spice, finishing with a fig and even honey, although right in the background. Lovely depth to this wine. "