Sauvignon Blanc 2017

Description

(100% Sauvignon Blanc) Sauvignon Blanc vines are planted in three locations, on Templar’s Hill, untouched by the 19th Century gold miners, on Doctor’s Flat, where mining has exposed rich mineral clays atop an ancient lake bed and on a corner of Defiance vineyard that has predominantly clay based soils. A portion of the fruit was whole bunch pressed and the rest was de-stemmed and crushed to press. The resulting pressed juice was cold settled for two days before racking and inoculating with selected yeast. Slightly over half the juice was stainless tank fermented with the remainder undergoing barrel fermentation in French oak barriques (one new barrel). The barrel portion was lees stirred to help give the wine roundness and complexity.(700cs)