Greystone Barrel Ferment Organic Sauvignon Blanc (2020)

750mL / North Canterbury / New Zealand

Category: Wine
Sub-Category: White Wine

Lemon in colour with a full aromatic display of citrus, tropical fruits, straw and oak complexity. The palate is smooth with fresh acidity and long mineral phenolics. Ripe fruit flavours unfold throughout.

The Greystone team settled the fresh juice after a gentle pressing then ferment all of their Sauvignon in old French Oak barrels with wild yeast taking seven months to get through to dryness going through almost full malolactic fermentation concurrently.

This prolonged fermentation provides complexity and natural lees stirring adds texture and depth to the flavours.

Greystone Barrel Ferment Organic Sauvignon Blanc was then blended and estate bottled without fining, just prior to the new harvest.

Reviews & Accolades:

93 pts Excellent Cameron Douglas MS

94 pts Sam Kim wineorbit.com

18.5/20 Raymond Chan