Mahi Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023

VinousSourced from a combination of six vineyards. Fermented 40% wild - an increase in this vintage - and 20% in barrel, with no press wine, so the pH stays low, followed by nine months on lees. Offering floral notes and citrus, this conveys a nice sense of tenderness and flesh yet also a lightness of touch. Feels very unworked and has a sense of purity.

James SucklingThis has aromas of fresh pear, melon and passion fruit with gently grassy elements. The palate is supple and even with gently tangy acidity holding fresh lime and passion-fruit flavors.

Raymond ChanBrilliant, pale straw-yellow colour with slight green hues, near colourless on the edge.  The nose is elegantly concentrated with a firm core of white stonefruits along with subtle notes of fresh herbs entwined with a complex layer of flinty and mineral lees notes, unfolding a whiff of smoke.  The aromatics are thirst-quenching.  Dry to taste and medium-bodied, the palate has a concentrated and well-packed amalgam of white and green stonefruits, along with nuances of gooseberries and herbs, intermixed with a layer of flinty and minerally lees.  The fruit is bright, growing in richness and aromatics, along with refreshing acidity providing energy and tension.  The wine flows along a very fine, textured line which allows the fruitiness to feature, carrying to a long and sustained, tightly bound finish.  This is a concentrated and intense Sauvignon Blanc with rich gooseberry and stonefruit flavours along with a complex flinty and minerally layering of lees, an a taut palate.  Serve with seafood and herb-marinated poultry and pork over the next 2+ years.  Fruit from 7 different vineyards, hand-picked and WBP, fermented with 22% by indigenous yeasts in stainless-steel, with 7% in seasoned French oak to 13.0% alc