Spy Valley's 2024 Sauvignon Blanc opens with passion fruit and sweet lime threaded through with minerality and lifted florals, then deepens on the mid-palate with a textured richness and mouth-watering acidity that carries nutty, savory complexities. A Marlborough classic that rewards slow sipping.
Winemaker Notes
Distinctive flavors of passion fruit and sweet lime intermingled with layers of minerality; with lifted floral notes, grapefruit and white peach aromas. The mid palate is rich and textured with a mouth watering acidity. Nutty and savory complexities will continue to build and provide great interest.
About the Producer
In the 1990’s Waihopai Valley, Marlborough, Bryan and Jan Johnson established 180 hectares their estate vineyards on land considered too hard, too dry and too infertile for vines. This pioneering spirit has led to New Zealand’s most successful and respected wineries, and one of the few 100% Kiwi family-owned and operated. Managing Director, Amanda Johnson cites a passionate family culture, terroir driven winemaking as key reasons for that recognition. Spy Valley’s vineyards are situated primarily on young alluvial river terraces with veins of stone and shingle overlaid with a thin veneer of topsoil. Older terraces have a higher clay content and deeper topsoil, underlaying free draining river gravel and stone. Located up the road from a “Five Eyes” government listening post (spy base), 2-time ISWC NZ Wine Producer of the Year, Spy Valley shares the secrets of their land in every bottle, while embracing a sustainable philosophy for their legacy. The Broadbent and Spy Valley Wines relationship goes back to 2001 and prides itself as being part of the family.
