Jane Skilton MW, Colin Ford, Tim Harris
Wine New Zealand - December/January 2004
A very youthful wine that is still quite tight
and closed. An attractive grassy mineral character with a touch of
smoky fruit. Dry.
Cuisine - January 2004 Issue
Michael Cooper's Buyer's Guide 2004
The 2003 vintage (êêêê)
was grown in the Pirinoa Block, at Martinborough, and a small portion
was fermented in old French oak barriques. Fresh and lively, with
ripe melon, lime and capsicum flavours and a slightly flinty finish,
it shows good delicacy, complexity and length. Open early 2004
onwards.
Sue Courtney
Food Service - November 2003
This has an aroma of capsicum with apple and orange
peel. It's a little softer and fatter than the Murdoch James (also
in this issue) with capsicum and citrus flavours that build in power
with a bright, zesty, vivacity. It has excellent weight, terrific
texture and a good strong finish with lingering gooseberry and a
suggestion of melon.
John Saker, Christime Comerford, Stephen Morris
Capital Times - Wine Report - 22 October 2003
Attractive gooseberry and grass scents. Clean and
fresh through the palate with prominent asparagus and gooseberry
characters. Not overly agressive. That word "classic" used by both
Christine and Stephen. êêêê1/2
Charmian Smith
Otago Daily Times - 29 October 2003
This winery's first sauvignon in a few years. It comes
from a vineyard just south of Martinborough. Lovely aromas and flavours
of green herbs and mineral overlaid with melon and tropical fruits,
a subtle hint of underlying oak and a steely, dry finish give this
wine a desirable complexity and texture.
Cuisine – January 2002 - Top
Ten
Bob Campbell / John Hancock / John Buchanan
94 points Martinborough
Vineyard 2001 Sauvignon Blanc
Fragrant and intense Sauvignon Blanc made in a very pungent Marlborough-like
style but with a greater emphasis on peach and other stone fruit
characters. The wine also shows a pleasing contrast between riper
passion fruit flavours and subtle herbal characters with a hint
of wood smoke.
Harvey Steinman
Wine Spectator (USA) - September 15, 2001
92 points Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc Martinborough
2000
Bright and jazzy, a lively, generous mouthful of peach, passion
fruit and lime flavours, shaded nicely with mineral and floral
notes. It all lasts and lasts on the finish. Yummy stuff, and
with zing.
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