2025 TWR Sauvignon Blanc
Original price was: $29.00.$26.00Current price is: $26.00.
Our aim with this, our classic style of Sauvignon Blanc, is to put 100% effort into making a wine that silences all the doubters and which restores faith in this region and the amazing quality of the wines from here. This 2023 Sauvignon Blanc is a blend from two specially selected vineyards in two different subregions of Marlborough. One of the vineyards are in the upper Awatere Valley – Shamrock, and the second being our certified organic TWR home block, here in Renwick.
The growing conditions in the Awatere are characterised by cooler temperatures and slower ripening than in the Wairau, which is all important for flavour development and ripe acidity. The wines from this sub-region tend to be more restrained in their youth but have great texture, structure and longevity. Our home block, the warmer days of the Wairau Valley and a bigger diurnal range. These climatic factors combined with our clay loam soil here, results in wines which have great texture and fleshiness and are characterised by riper tropical notes with stone-fruit with a lovely line of minerality.
Tasting Notes
The TWR is our Marlborough classic and shows distinctive Awatere characters of guava, white currant, and elderflower coupled with lovely ripe passionfruit & tropical notes and hints of basil and lime from the Wairau fruit. These follow through to the palate – which is fine and soft with loads of fleshy fruit balanced by a ripe, juicy acidity and lingering minerality. There is real fruit weight here and that is complimented by lovely texture from the time on lees and the barrel parcels – It is utterly delicious!
Reviews
95 Points – Shanteh Wale – Halliday Wine Companion
Fruit is from 65/35% Awatere/Wairau; 18% of the wine is barrel fermented. Another vivid expression of carefully picked, beautifully ripe fruit. From yuzu and blackberry leaf to Alphonso mango and guava. There is fragrant wattle and dewy rainforest leaf. Acidity hums with its electric energy and dances across the palate into kefir cream and coconut flesh. Tailored barrel ferment allows the mid-palate generosity to express some mild nutty notes and rounds out the pungent explosion of fruit. Balanced and, once again, superb.
93 points & Top 10 – Stephen Wong MW – The Real Review
Perfumed and vibrant, this unfolds with layers of glassic gooseberry and green kiwifruit, adorned with jasmine, apple blossom and sweet fennel. The palate is light but refined, driven by mouth-watering acidity and silky phenolics which all come together on the bone dry and tangy finish with long, waxy citrus flavours. No rush with this one, it’s just getting into its groove and starting to display its innate complexity. Drink 2026 to 2029 The Real Review – Top 10 2025 Sauvignon Blancs
94 points – Cameron Douglas MS
Pungent and fruity, varietal and precise with a seam of elegance and hold, there’s a floral quality just before the mineral wet pebbles and fresh green herb scents start to invade the senses. A dry wine with a backbone of acidity, flavours of cape gooseberry and peach, grapefruit and lime. Delicious and precise, lengthy, sea spray cool stone tension. Best drinking from late 2026 through 2030+. Excellent
2024 Vintage
96 points – Shanteh Wale – Halliday Wine Companion
93 Points – Erin Larkin – The Wine Advocate
93 points & Editors Choice – The Wine Enthusiast
93 Points – Toronto Star Carolyn Hammond
94 Points – Cameron Douglas MS
91 Points – Decanter Magazine
2023 Vintage
95 Points – Shanteh Wale – Halliday Wine Companion
93 Points – Top Value & Top Rank -Stephen Wong MW
94 Points – Toronto Star Carolyn Hammond
94 Points – Cameron Douglas MS
92 Points – James Suckling
94 Points – Bob Campbell MW
Top Wines of 2024 – Metro Magazine