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2009 Sauvignon Blanc, Cloudy Bay, Marlborough

2009 Sauvignon Blanc, Cloudy Bay, Marlborough

  • Style: Dry, White, StillDry, White, Still
  • Country: New ZealandNew Zealand
  • Maturity: To be consumed 2009 – 2012To be consumed 2009 – 2012 

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Wine Details

Vintage: 2009
Colour: White
Style: Still
Size: Bottle - 75cl (75cl.)
Alcohol: -
Sweetness: Dry
Maturity advice: To be consumed 2009 – 2012
Organic: -
Country: New Zealand
Producer: Cloudy Bay
Serving temp.: -
Classification: -

Tasting Note

The Marlborough wine region in the north-east of New Zealand’s South Island is Sauvignon Blanc’s home away from its Loire Valley home and nowhere is the Marlborough style and character more purely expressed than in Cloudy Bay’s modern classic.
2009 vintage Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc is generous and broad, with vibrant and enticing aromas of tropical and lime-driven citrus fruit. The palate is juicy and attractive, with concentrated grapefruit and mango characters, steely minerality and a very long, fresh finish.

Region Details

100% South Island / Marlborough

Marlborough dominates the production in the south, led of course by the rise and rise of Sauvignon Blanc. Chardonnay and Riesling followed, then Gewurztraminer, all highly desirable, clean, and pungent. Now attention is turning to red wines, with Merlot, Syrah and of course, Pinot Noir. In Marlborough its style is scented and fleshy; in Nelson elegant and classic, and in the far south, in Central Otago, an entirely new taste sensation with deep mulberry and bramble fruit overlain with sweet oak. Production at this early stage is minute (New Zealand as a whole produces little more wine than Saint-Emilion) but the noise is growing.

Vintage Notes

Grape Variety

100% Sauvignon Blanc

A variety with ancestral links to the Loire valley in France and now planted widely around the world. In France it is best known for Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, though it is widely used in dry white bordeaux and as a component in sauternes. Sauvignon Blanc has a crisp, grapey countenance and a hallmark fragrance of herbs and green garden fruits. It is rarely exposed to new oak ageing. The variety developed a cult following after its success in New Zealand in the 1990s where growers coaxed richness and pungency from the variety. It is an important variety in both South Africa and Chile, and can be found in California, Austria and elsewhere.

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