A blend of the best plots of Sauvignon Blanc from the Saint Clair estate. 100% Sauvignon Blanc from the subzone of Wairau in the Marlborough region of New Zealand. Estate grown. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks with no lees contact.

Vintage Notes from the Winemaker: A very warm spring and early summer led to a good flowering for most varieties, especially for Sauvignon Blanc. Summer was wetter than normal with higher rainfall. Fortunately, the rain ceased a month prior to harvest, and Marlborough’s normal dry and windy weather returned to create clean fruit, free of disease and of exceptional quality.

93 points, Wine Spectator

"Marlborough has built its reputation on the shoulders of wines like these, and it stakes its success to them now. Interestingly, the region is able to produce high-quality wines at high yields (15 tonnes per hectare, as an example), which certainly explains how the regional volume of wine is achieved. Gladly, as a consumer, high yields don't seem to mean low quality in this case, meaning there's lots of it, and it's good. On the nose, this 2022 Sauvignon Blanc Wairau Reserve leads with overt thiols—passionfruit, green bean, sweet pea florals, green apples and coriander. The fruit is from Dillon's Point (in the lower Wairau), and it essentially expounds a quintessential Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and does what it says it will do—you've gotta love that. 12.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap"