2024 Organic Sauvignon Blanc, Kelly Washington
Before you continue with this tasting note, please banish all thoughts of fruit salady, guava-tinged, cat’s pee Marlborough ‘Savvies’. This wine is a world away from the oceans of mediocre white wine made from this ubiquitous grape. Instead, this organic Sauvignon is slender, high-tensile, vital and aromatherapeutic, with grassy tones and raw citrus energy the length of its palate. It feels like a cross between a flinty Menetou-Salon, a chilly Friuli Bianco and a racy Vinho Verde, such is the rapier-sharp attack and the mouth-watering cleanliness on the palate. Interestingly, a smattering of oak is used here, as well as some concrete eggs and a dribble of laser-like Semillon. I hear Dr Spock reporting, ‘It’s Sauvignon, but not as we know it’! And do you know what? It works like a dream. -Matthew Jukes
2024 Organic Sauvignon Blanc, Kelly Washington
Before you continue with this tasting note, please banish all thoughts of fruit salady, guava-tinged, cat’s pee Marlborough ‘Savvies’. This wine is a world away from the oceans of mediocre white wine made from this ubiquitous grape. Instead, this organic Sauvignon is slender, high-tensile, vital and aromatherapeutic, with grassy tones and raw citrus energy the length of its palate. It feels like a cross between a flinty Menetou-Salon, a chilly Friuli Bianco and a racy Vinho Verde, such is the rapier-sharp attack and the mouth-watering cleanliness on the palate. Interestingly, a smattering of oak is used here, as well as some concrete eggs and a dribble of laser-like Semillon. I hear Dr Spock reporting, ‘It’s Sauvignon, but not as we know it’! And do you know what? It works like a dream. -Matthew Jukes
Jancis Robinson
Interesting aroma – not just classic green-fruited Sauvignon. More complexity, salty-sour and herbal. Dry and, unusually, creamy-salty on the palate. Dry, taut and long. (JH)
17 Points / Drinking 2025 - 2027
By Julia Harding MW / March 2025
Vinous
The 2024 Sauvignon Blanc has a restrained style with floral and white talc notes meeting subtle almond pastry flavors of partial fermentation in barrel and extended time on lees. Its clarity and purity reflect the delicate handling (hand harvesting and whole bunch pressing), with texture providing flesh on the mid-palate and reassuring grip on the harmonious finish. Sancerre lovers would do well to look to Marlborough with such cuvées. If you’re looking for a wham-bam Marlborough Sauvignon, look away. Organically grown.
92 Points / Drinking 2025 - 2030
By Rebecca Gibb / March 2025