Complex, full and finely textured wine with great focus and length. An alternative, age-worthy expression of New Zealand’s most famous grape variety.
On the nose, the wine exhibits fragrant elderflower, grapefruit, basil and passionfruit notes with richer underlying stonefruit characters. This is complimented by subtle oak bringing and underlying creamy / vanillan richness. On the palate the wine is full, finely textured and persistent with a slightly dry, flinty edge.
This wine matches a wider range of foods than the lighter crisper styles. Great with a range of seafoods including richer dishes such as scallops or crayfish. Try with fresh and vibrant salads and vegetables, including fennel, tomato, basil, parsley, rocket, capers, green beans and asparagus and good quality Mozzarella cheese. It also works well with richer poultry dishes and butter based sauces such as beurre blanc.
This fuller bodied style of Sauvignon Blanc can age gracefully for up to 10 years or more.
Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. 13.5% abv.
Church Road Grand Reserve wines are produced only in exceptional vintages. The very best low-cropping vineyard blocks are targeted for selective hand-harvesting to yield wines with the greatest possible flavour, depth and concentration. In the winery these wines are made using small batch, traditional winemaking techniques that emphasise texture, structure and subtle complexity, while still letting the fruit shine through.