2023 Clark Estate “Riverside Terrace” Sauvignon Blanc
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This wine is pale yellow in colour, with a pungent nose of sea breeze, wet stone, and freshly cut citrus fruit that really jumps out of the glass. It is fruity, light-bodied, and dry on the palate, with a refreshing minerality, intense flavours of lemon, and a hint of grassiness. Its strong backbone of acidity gives the wine structure and leads to a surprisingly lengthy, mouth-watering finish.
This wine is pale yellow in colour, with a pungent nose of sea breeze, wet stone, and freshly cut citrus fruit that really jumps out of the glass. It is fruity, light-bodied, and dry on the palate, with a refreshing minerality, intense flavours of lemon, and a hint of grassiness. Its strong backbone of acidity gives the wine structure and leads to a surprisingly lengthy, mouth-watering finish.
Silver Medal – 2024 New Zealand International Wine Show
Silver Medal – 2024 Australian and New Zealand Boutique Wine Awards
Bronze Medal – 2024 Aotearoa Regional Wine Competition
Bronze Medal – 2024 Marlborough Wine Show
Bronze Medal – 2024 National Wine Awards of Aotearoa
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95 points 5 stars      Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Wonderfully fruited and immediately appealing, the wine shows green apple, rockmelon, mango and lemon peel aromas, followed by an intensely flavoursome palate displaying excellent vibrancy and persistency. At its best: now to 2026.
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92 points 4 stars      Bob Campbell MW
Weighty sauvignon with appealing mouth-feel and flavours suggesting lime juice, gooseberry, passionfruit, guava and oyster shell. Purity and power with a suggestion of sweetness. Punchy wine. March 2024
90 points 4 stars      Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Wine Reviews
Bright, even, pale yellow. The nose is gently full and elegant, with aromas of gooseberry, stonefruit, elderflower and minerals. Medium-light bodied, aromas of gooseberry and nectarine entwined with elderflower, green herb and stony minerals. The wine is bright and smooth-flowing, with chalky textured minerals and saline persist a long finish. Match with steamed tua tuas and mussels over the next 3 years. Fermented cool to 12.5% alc, 4 g/l RS. Â Apr 2024
90 points      James Suckling
Aromas of passion fruit, orange peel and lemons. The palate is light-bodied with vibrant acidity, giving notes of pineapple, red apples and mangoes. Nov 2024 Â
Viticulture
Our main terrace is home for our Sauvignon Blanc vines, which are made up of different blocks depending on the soils beneath. The vines for these wines come from Block 6. The soils in this block are very stoney with little loam and as a result the vines crop much lower yields, therefore ripening flavours much earlier than the sugars can accumulate. Naturally these wines will have lower alcohol but with the full spectrum of intense flavours only the Upper Awatere can give.
Winemaking
Harvested in the cool of the evening, the grapes were gently pressed and the juice was fermented under very cool conditions to retain the intensity of the flavours. Once dry, the wine was left on yeast lees to develop even more complex flavours.
Wine Analysis
pH Â Â Â Â Â Â 3.21
TAÂ Â Â Â 6.9 g/L
Alc      12.0%
RSÂ Â Â Â 3.16 g/L
The Upper Awatere valley is well known for its rugged soils and unforgiving climate, but also the many river terraces that jigsaw their way down the valley. Our river terraces sit amongst the foothills of the Blackbirch range, and the vines grown here are quite different to other terraces along the valley as a result.
Our Riverside Terrace Sauvignon Blanc is a pure expression of our terroir. We have created wines that are unencumbered by the effect of higher alcohol, letting the pristine flavours of the Upper Awatere shine and give these wines a definite sense of place.
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