Earthsong

Reflective of the vintage this wine delivers a bouquet and palate deliver a pungent, fruity and tasty wine ready for drinking from day of purchase. Flavours of passion fruit and sweet apple, some red bell-pepper and white pineapple. The natural herbaceous seam throughout the wine adds breadth. Plenty of salivating qualities with a saline and fruit freshness. Well made and ready to drink through 2026.

This is made in a reductive style often used for Chardonnay. For Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, however, this reviewer isn't convinced it works. The struck match aromas dominate over the citrus, passion fruit and green veg characters. There's a bit more fruit on the youthful, zippy palate, but it never quite achieves harmony.