BOUNDARY FARM SAUVIGNON BLANC 2010

This wine forms part of the single-vineyard series of Mahi, which are wines chosen to express the particular vineyards from which they come. The grapes are handpicked and the wines made in as natural a method possible, with the focus being on gentle handling and indigenous yeast ferments.

This wine comes from a small hillside parcel on the southeast boundary of the township of Blenheim. The vineyard is run by Perry and Stephanie Gilbert, who also live on the property, ensuring great attention to detail. The north-facing aspect means that the grapes ripen well and are often some of the earlier grapes of our vintage.

The grapes were 100% hand picked, whole cluster pressed and taken straight to French barriques (8% new), where they were fermented with indigenous yeast, helping add to the complexity and texture.

The wine was left on yeast lees for eleven months, which were stirred regularly. This meant that the yeast added both savoury notes and also served to work as a natural fining agent.

The 2010 crush for us was characterised by the very low rainfall in April, just 5mm up to the 28th. This made picking decisions much easier and allowed us to take the fruit as we wanted.

It was quite a late vintage for us, which allowed the flavours to develop, and as we had the same team in the winery as 2009 life was good.

Being a cooler vintage higher acid levels were retained which suits our style of later harvesting; aiming at palate texture rather than early picked primary fruit notes.

The wines of Mahi are not rushed to bottle and we believe that with correct storage this wine will continue to develop in interest and complexity.

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