A premium, elegant and hand-picked Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Supple across the palate with a generous mouth-feel, the vibrant and expressive fruit flavours lead to a smooth dry finish. Fairbourne is terroir inspired from a single hillside vineyard. Enjoy now or allow the complex layers to mature gracefully.
What other people are saying…
Intense Sauvignon Blanc with grapefruit, melon and tree fruit and nectarine flavours. The wine has impressive purity, an exquisite balance and an ethereal texture. An incredibly lengthy finish demonstrates real power.
– Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, 2016
Bright, very pale straw colour with slight green hues. The nose is very elegant and delicate with subtly detailed aromas of pure fruit, showing white florals, white and green stonefruits, a suggestion of gooseberries, along with fresh herbs, This is tightly bound, and reveals a core of thirst-quenching wet-stone minerals. This is sheer finesse and refinement. Dry to taste and medium-full bodied, the palate has a refined and tightly concentrated core of white and green stonefruits entwined with white florals, herbs and a hint of gooseberries, along with mouth-watering minerals. The core is fine, firm and taut, and the wine flows along a very fine-textured phenolic line with crisp and brisk acid energy. The flavours have linearity and drive, and carry to an elegant, lingering dry, minerally finish. This is a very taut and concentrated, refined and detailed Sauvignon Blanc with thirst quenching stonefruit, herb, floral and minerally flavours.
– Raymond Chan Wine Reviews, 2016
Made from hand-picked grapes grown on a steep north-facing hillside vineyard in the Wairau Valley, this refined rendition displays elegant aromas of white stone fruit, lemon peel, jasmine and sweet basil on the nose. The palate is concentrated and focused, and offers excellent purity as well as seductive savoury nuances, wonderfully framed by fine texture and bright acidity.
– Wine Orbit, 2016
From elevated, north-facing slopes in the Wairau Valley, the classy 2016 vintage (5*) of this single-vineyard wine is one of the best yet. Hand picked and fermented to full dryness (1.2 grams/litre of residual sugar), it was mostly handled in tanks, but a small portion of the blend was French oak-fermented. Pale lemon/green. it is ripely scented and weighty, with fresh, concentrated, grapefruit/lime fruit characters, showing good complexity, and a well-rounded, long finish. a very garmonious wine, with layers of flavour, it’s already delicious.
– Michael Cooper, 2016
