Waipara Hills source harvests of Sauignon Blanc from several hundred acres of prime Wairau Valley vineyards. The focus of each site is to exploit the terroir by growing the most suitable clones. All vineyards are managed by a small and highly motivated core team of personnel, each is of sufficient scale to allow for the selection of the highest quality fruit. Every parcel is carefully harvested and de juiced before being gently cold settled. Once clear, juices are inoculated with a range of yeasts and vinified for a month at cooler temperatures, followed by racking off lees and further cold settling, assemblage and clarification before bottling. Alcohol 13.0%