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Giesen Estate
Sauvignon Blanc
Our Award-Winning Sauvignon Blanc helped shine a global spotlight on Marlborough, sparking a love affair with this vibrant, distinctive style that continues to this day.
The fruit we select from the Wairau Valley adds brightness, tropical and citrus flavours, as well as tighter acidity to our Giesen Estate Sauvignon Blanc blend.
Enjoy a crisp, fresh glass of this classic Marlborough Sav, made to consistently showcase the best of this famous wine region.
The Sauvignon Blanc That Enchanted The World!
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.
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.
