From the Gourmet Traveller Wine Winemaker of the Year 2021 comes this benchmark Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Always hugely popular, it is a 'go-to' wine for many and its success is based on Jules' passion for the variety having crafted some of the most successful Sauvignon Blancs over many years. 2024 is no exception.
Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"Explosive aromas of passionfruit, ruby red grapefruit, and juicy white peach jump out of the glass, followed by hints of fresh lemongrass. This in-your-face drop captures the essence of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Ripe, exuberant citrus and passionfruit flavours combine with fresh lemongrass. The palate is dry, complex, and powerful, giving way to a concentrated, salivating finish."
Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, October 2024 (2024 Vintage)
"Intense and pungent, powerful and refreshing bouquet of passionfruit and red apples, mandarin peel, crisp green pear, nettles and cape-gooseberry. A soon as the wine touches the palate I am salivating with plush, ripe fruit flavours that reflect the bouquet, there’s a fresh herb quality, a salinity and fresh basil herb suggestion. Delicious and ready. Best drinking from late 2024 through 2026+."
5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, October 2024 (2024 Vintage)
"Offering terrific fruit purity and power, the wine shows kiwifruit, feijoa, crunchy apple and jasmine aromas on the nose. The palate delivers excellent weight and fruit intensity, wonderfully supported by saline texture and bright acidity, finishing impressively long and satisfying. At its best: now to 2028."
Joelle Thomson, drinksbiz Magazine, March/April 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Winemaker Jules Taylor adores Sauvignon Blanc and aims to capture the essence of Marlborough in each zingy, vibrant sip of her tropical fruit-scented wine. Aromas of passionfruit, tangelos and ripe grapefruit all add complex layers of flavour. This wine drinks beautifully now and can hold over the next two to four years."
91/100 Erin Larkin, RobertParker.com, Wine Advocate June 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"The 2024 Sauvignon Blanc hails from the Awatere Valley, Lower Wairau and the Southern Valleys and leads with passionfruit, coriander, gooseberry and sweet pea. In the mouth, the wine reveals its region with startling clarity—it has all the calling cards of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc: crunchy, sleek/polished, concentrated and flavoursome."