The goal here is to construct a wine of intensity, complexity and great interest on the palate. Ultimately a wine that will evolve in the glass, revealing a variety of flavours, structures and classic Marlborough textures. The focus is on elegance rather than having any one element dominating the subtler characters and undertones. The fastidiously maintained vines produce clean, ripe fruit which translate into a deeply satisfying Sauvignon Blanc. Catalina Sounds is built to contemporary tastes, immensely flavoursome and ready to enjoy upon release.

$2599each $311DOZEN EACH DOZEN Each individual vineyard parcel is harvested at optimal ripeness. Some blocks are picked early to retain higher acid and fresh citrus characters, others are left to ripen fully. Fruit is gently pressed, cold settled and racked for inoculation. A variety of yeasts are added, some are selected to accentuate the aromatics of fruit, others add mouthfeel and texture. Some components remain on yeast lees and are stirred post fermentation, which adds a further textural element to the wine. A portion is fermented in French oak puncheons, while being treated to heavy lees stirring, developing complexity and a subtle undertone of savouriness.

Pale lemon colour. Subtle floral notes mingle elegantly with citrus zest, creamy lemon curd and fresh asian herbs. A textural long palate, bright tropical and citrus notes with a fine minerality and long balanced acidity which carries the flavours right to the end of the palate. A soft mouthfeel, good length and a clean finish. Creamy and harmonious, an awesome Marlborough wine.

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Catching Thieves specialize in the vogue contemporary styles which have seen Margaret River wines prevail the world over. The philosophy behind Catching Thieves is to capture and deliver contemporary, vibrant wines with so much style, you'll do anything to get your hands on them! The salubrious soils and balmy climes along Margaret River yield harvests of Sauvignon and Semillon grapes endowed with great intensity. Cool maritime breezes stimulate the vines to concentrate the brisk fruit flavours which, so essential for the Catching Thieves style.

$1999each $239DOZEN EACH DOZEN Catching Thieves pay homage to the daring, enterprising and creative personalities who are the central characters in stories such as To Catch a Thief, Modesty Blaise and Catch Me if You Can. Paradoxically, the Catching Thieves wines are honest, reliable and desirable. Grapes are harvested and crushed directly to the press, where only free run juice are retained for cold settling. Juices are racked clean and warmed prior to seeding with a strain of yeast which encourages varietal expression. Cold fermentations accentuate and retain primary fruit flavours. Components are separately treated and assembled upon completion to create a wine of elegance and structure.

Pale straw with light green hues. Intense citrus and snow pea aromas complemented with fresh passionfruit and exotic tropical fruit notes. A crisp, clean palate with dominant passionfruit and stonefruit flavours, beautifully supported by a citrus acid backbone giving the wine lovely structure and a lingering, zesty finish. A super selection for the lunch table, highly suited to bistrot faire, chicken caesar or pinenut, dill and cream linguine.

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For Bodega Catena, every wine speaks of the vineyard, pioneering a research project into the microclimates of Mendoza. Through the planting of select clones on various blocks, Bodega Catena were able to identify the ideal locations. Sites which are just a few kilometers apart can have vast differences in altitude and possess markedly different microclimates. The same varietal and even the same clone, can exhibit distinct aromatic and flavour profiles. Crafted from the fruit of ancient rows, a purity of flavour and a minerality that's identifiably Adrianna and Domingo Vineyards Chardonnay.

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A seamless single vineyard co ferment of three wonderously perfumed whites, a third each of Riesling, Traminer and the abstruse Kerner Weißer Herold, a bespoke Riesling Trollinger hybrid. There are few places with the exceptional excellence of terroir to sire such a graceful bouquet of aromatic varietals. The eminent Fechner brothers block at Moculta is fortuitously mineral rich, gently strewn with marble and chalk shards for the infusement of grapes with lively lychee and fragrant florals. Its marvelously poised and elegant structure, lustrous with minerality and lingering with honeysuckle hazel delights.

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Graeme and Michael Fechner brought back cuttings of the Weißer Herold grape, also known as Kerner, to their Eden Valley vineyard, following a research trip to Germany in 2001. The vines bloomed and found a new home away from home, where the felicitious, long calm ripening seasons encourage the grapes to form lusciously sweet fruit esters, redolent of all the tropical muscat characters which define the dulcet delicacy of the delightful Kerner. Grapefruits, lychee and applejack, an excellent choice of chilled Mosel style white to accompany dressed birds, savoury bakes and desserts.

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