Oyster Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2016
$1599each
$191DOZEN
WineryOyster Bay
Fruit Sauvignon Blanc
Regions Marlborough
  New Zealand
Each $15.99
$191.00
Currently out of stock
A staple on fine wine lists everywhere, one of Marlborough's most palatable exponents, having claimed top gold at the Washington International Wines for Oysters Competition! The philosophy of Oyster Bay is to produce the finest, articulate New Zealand wines, assertive yet elegant, laden with glamorous fruit flavours. It all begins in the vineyard, significantly, each vine is treated as an individual. All that remains for the winemaking team is to preserve the expression of the vineyard and splendid quality of fruit.
Throughout the course of harvest, fruit is selected from progressively later ripening vineyard blocks, commencing with the stonier free draining sites. Grapes are destemmed and transferred to tank where the free run juices are separated, the remaining fruit is lightly pressed. Juices are cold settled to a clear state, racked into fermentation tanks and inoculated with a select range of yeasts for added complexity and aromaticness. Treated to a slow, temperature controlled fermentation at 12C to 14C, after completion and a short period of yeast lees contact, components are racked for assemblage and bottled young to ensure the fresh, crisp and elegant varietal characters are retained.
TASTING NOTES
Pale straw green colour with perfect clarity. Oyster Bay is zesty and aromatic with lots of lively, penetrating fruit characters. Hallmark flavour profiles of gooseberry, nettle and tropical fruit, a concentration of tropicality, an abundant bouquet, lively and finely textured, beset with lingering citrus notes, a wine that is always crisp, elegant and refreshing.
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About Oyster Bay Wines
From its very first vintage, which won gold and the coveted Marquis de Goulaine Trophy for Best Sauvignon Blanc at the 22nd International Wine & Spirit Competition in London 1991, Oyster Bay has continued to define the very essence of Marlborough
Set in the alluvial heart of Marlborough, one of the world's most recognised wine-growing regions and a place as beautiful as it is abundant, you will find the vineyards that grew the reputation of Oyster Bay. Here, on the shallow stony soils of the tranquil Wairau Plains, where long, slow summers and cool autumn nights give birth to grapes of intense and fruity flavours, Oyster Bay began, from the very outset, to produce wines of international stature. Oyster Bay»