SAINT CLAIR WAIRAU RESERVE SAUVIGNON BLANC 2023

Trophy for Champion Sauvignon Blanc – Marlborough Wine Show 2024
Gold Medal – Marlborough Wine Show 2024
Gold Medal – New Zealand International Wine Show 2023 

The Saint Clair ‘Wairau Reserve’ Sauvignon Blanc is Saint Clair’s flagship wine and is long considered one of the very best Marlborough Sauvignon Blancs. There's no doubting the Saint Clair style here, it's pungent and intense, oh so generous in aroma and flavour yet it has a refinement, an elegance from the slightly saline mineral characters that help drive the incredible length.

Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"Pungent and expressive with concentrated aromas of white currant and passionfruit with a green herbaceous thread. Pure and focused with layers of passionfruit, jalapeno and crushed herb. The palate is generous and refreshing with salty mineral notes and a long lingering finish."

Rated Super Classic & 5 Stars Michael Cooper (2023 Vintage)
"Marlborough's largest family-owned wine producer has an extensive array of Sauvignon Blancs. This is not the region's most complex Savvy, but in terms of sheer pungency, it's a star, having won countless gold medals and trophies since the first, 2001 vintage. Grown in the cooler, coastal end of the Wairau Valley and handled entirely in stainless steel tanks, it is typically super-charged, in an exuberantly fruity, very pure and zesty style. The light lemon/green 2023 vintage, grown at a single site at Dillons Point, is intensely varietal. Medium to full-bodied, it is penetrating and finely poised, with vigorous passionfruit and green capsicum flavours, a hint of saltiness, and a crisp, dry, lingering finish."

5 Stars & 19/20 (95) Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Reviews, January 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Bright, even, pale yellow. The nose is expressive with aromas of fresh gooseberry, white currant, green mango, nettle and sea minerals. Medium-light bodied, aromas of gooseberry, white currant and green mango form a taut core, unfolding kaffir lime, nettle, elderflower and sea salt. Delicately textured phenolics provide substance and silkiness to the mouthfeel. Zingy acidity persists to a crisp, lingering with saline moreishness. A well-made, sophisticated Sauvignon Blanc shows refined layers and purity. Match with mussels with herb butter and goat's cheese ravioli over the next 3+ years. Fruit from a single vineyard in Dillons Point of the Lower Wairau Valley fermented to 12.5% alc."

94/100 Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review (2023 Vintage)
"Gently aromatic showing strong varietal definition and impressive purity with lemongrass, citrus/lime, gooseberry and green capsicum. Taut, refined wine with mouth-watering tension."