2024 Blank Canvas Holdaway Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc

“A stunning example with a bouquet of minerality and salty air, scents of nettles and tropical fruits, cape gooseberry and citrus peel. As the wine touches the palate the impacts of acidity and fresh citrus fruits are revealed first, then apple and fresh sage, basil and aforementioned tropical fruits. Saline and fresh, a delicious wine with a decent palate squeeze. Lengthy and well made with best drinking from day of purchase through 2029+.”

95 Points, Cameron Douglas MS

“The 2024 Holdaway Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc hails from Dillons Point in the Lower Wairau, on the shores of the Cook Strait. The wine is chalky and mineral and more than a little bit salty, with fresh coriander, crushed oyster shell, lemon oil, verbena and wet stone. The fruit is fleshy, but the wine retains a core of tension and freshness. I love the draw and linger of flavor through the finish. While the aim of the game here is to minimize the impact of bittering phenolics, the wine is in possession of tremendous texture. It had a cool, long, ferment, and the juice was stirred to keep the lees in suspension; now they are settling to introduce textural interest.”

94 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

Full screwcapped bottle 1,248 g. A very good vintage with perfect harvest conditions and low yields. Young alluvial silts over sand in the Dillons Point subregion. Regenerative viticulture, complex mix of cover crops and no ploughing. Machine-harvested at night. Skin contact avoided. Tank-fermented. TA 6.9 g/l, pH 3.4, RS 2 g/l. Certified Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand and Appellation Marlborough Wine.
“Intensely aromatic and immediately recognisable as Marlborough Sauvignon, both pea pod and more exotic passion fruit, plus grapefruit and blackcurrant leaf, even a touch of capsicum. Tastes dry and extremely crisp, though there is a roundness and depth in the mouth from the sweetness of fruit, which is more passion fruit and guava on the palate as it warms up. Treads a fine line between fruit sweetness/intensity and crisp elegance. Chewy finish – from the lees – and extremely moreish in its freshness. Intense but not excessively pungent, with a long, rich but dry finish. It may well age longer but I’d enjoy this while the fruit is so vibrant.”

17/20 Julia Harding MW for Jancis Robinson MW

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