Select Blocks Sauvignon Blanc

From specific, carefully selected blocks, this wine delivers the perfect balance of Marlborough exuberance and fruit expression, with the refinement and texture you need in a great food wine.

The Ara Select Blocks Sauvignon Blanc is vibrant and intense, showing ripe, clean stone and grapefruit characters. It is very concentrated with a generous, textured mouth feel and a long clean finish.

TROPHY
Sydney International Wine Competition. Judged with food.

Marlborough, New Zealand
Fruit was sourced from selected parcels within the Ara vineyard that express a range of soil types and microclimates. The chosen parcels ripen quickly and evenly, showing intensity of fruit weight with good balance and elegant aromatic expression typical of Ara’s close row low yielding vineyards. Harvesting of the component parcels occurred early April with sugar levels at an average 22.5 brix.

The different parcels were fermented separately, most undergoing a long, slow, cool ferment of 20 days. One small portion was fermented relatively warm , to help build mid palate texture. The wines were aged on yeast lees for about 6 months prior to racking, blending and fining, then bottled in June.

Ripe and fresh for immediate drinking but will develop even more softness and aromatic complexity with 1-3 years cellaring.

Alcohol content (%v/v)

13.6%

TA

5.6

pH

3.6

Residual Sugar

<1 g/L

Select Blocks Sauvignon Blanc

REGION

WINEMAKING

FOOD MATCH

TASTING NOTES

Alcohol content (%v/v)	13.6%
TA	5.6
pH	3.6
Residual Sugar	<1 g/L