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Giesen Estate
Sauvignon Blanc
Our Award-Winning Sauvignon Blanc is responsible for putting Marlborough on the map, and the wine world's love affair with this distinctive varietal is ongoing!
The Sav That Enchanted The World!
Enjoy a crisp, fresh glass of this classic Marlborough Sav, made to consistently showcase the best of this famous wine region.
How Does It Taste?
This classic Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is aromatically expressive and generously flavoured with freshly cut herbs, scrumptious tropical fruit, and subtle notes of blackcurrant leaf.
Try it with...
Try pairing our Giesen Estate Sauvignon Blanc with fresh shellfish like mussels or clams, steamed in a simple tomato, garlic and fresh herb broth with a touch of chilli.
Made With Care
We select fruit from vineyards throughout Marlborough's famed Wairau and Awatere Valleys. This gives us the ability to consistently blend our famous
Giesen style Sauvignon Blanc year in, year out.
The Wairau Valley is known for producing fruit that adds brightness, tropical and citrus notes, and a lovely tighter acidity to our final product.
The Awatere Valley - slightly cooler, drier, and windier - gives us fruit which adds fullness, richness, and interesting flavours. Here we find the tropical notes are more grilled, and the herbal notes more dry.
Our winemakers aim to emphasise these vineyards and amplify our wonderful fruit. Following a gentle pressing, we started with carefully selected yeasts added to the juice to start fermentation. These yeasts were chosen to help build texture, weight and aromatics. Parcels of fruit were batch fermented with fermentation stopped when the perfect balance of natural sweetness and classic Marlborough acidity was achieved.
