So skillful and dedicated are the winemaking team at Yealands Estate, they have earned International Wine Challenge award for world's best Sauvignon Blanc. It is from their zero carbon certified wineworks in Wairau Valley, that the viticulturalists can source fruit for the construct of generously proportioned yet balanced wines which are in complete harmony with the environment. Whale's Tale is a crisp, fruit forward representation of Marlborough, perfect alongside fine cheese or freshly tossed chicken caesar.

$1599each $191DOZEN EACH DOZEN Harvests of Sauvignon Blanc are collated from good vineyards throughout the finer winegrowing precincts of Marlborough. The fast draining, low fertility soils, warm days and chilly nights form a mesoclime that's unmatched anywhere else in the world for yielding lusciously fruit driven Sauvignon Blanc wines. Grapes are crushed and gently pressed before cold settling. The clear juices are racked off and inoculated to choice yeasts. A long cool vinification in controlled fermenters captures and retains the vibrancy of Marlborough fruit. Batches are treated to a term on lees before assembling into the finished wine, stabilised and filtered prior to bottling.

Light straw hue. Lifted nose of passionfruit and lychee flower, kiwis and kaffir lime. A lifted blackcurrant palate, complexed by notes of wet stone and thyme, elegant yet full with sufficient weight and texture to mate alongside white meat roasts, all balanced by flinty minerality. A splendid match to goat’s cheese flan and the freshest seafood.

Whitehaven pride themselves on the peerless quality of fruit, they take nothing but the pick of crop and work with Marlborough's most distinguished growers. A superior harvest of Pinot Noir is sourced from Michelle and Andy Peter's vineyard in Awatere Valley. Grapes are destemmed into small open top vats and plunged several times daily over the course of a week, racked to a high proportion of new French oak for malolactic and fifteen month's maturation. A full bodied style of exquisite balance and ample fruit, woo your Whitehaven with game and gourmandise.

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Deep ruby, brick red hues. Complex nose, array of cedar, bottled plum and cherry notes, the savouryness of oak spice and earth characters of freshly picked beetroot. Full bodied Pinot Noir, supported by a chamois of soft, ripe tannins, velvety textures, an opulence of fruit and persistence of flavours on the lengthy, supple, lasting finish.

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The uncompromising pursuit of excellence brings the Yealands team to the extreme viticultural climes of Gibbston Valley in Central Otago. It is here under the frigid cloudless night skies that Pinot Noir vines, planted to undulating granite schist soils, struggle to yield harvests of parched grapes, redolent with cherry berry perfumes, bursting with an intensity of flavour and wrapped in a muslin of seamless, velvet tannins. Treated to a year in a proportion of new French oak barriques, the Otago Pinot of choice to match with red meats, lamb roasts and game.

$7099each $851DOZEN EACH DOZEN

From a parcel of auspicious vines, planted to wind blown silts over high mineral soils on the north facing G2 Block at Seaview Vineyard. The gently sloping, warmly sheltered coastal blocks, just eighty metres above sea level, have long inspired the Yealands team to create a judiciously oaked Sauvignon Blanc. A harvest of grapes in the riper spectrum is essential to such a wine, a choice component is treated to a course of barrel ferments in a selection of seasoned French oak puncheons. A richer, flint and pineapple style of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.

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$2499each $299DOZEN EACH DOZEN

Assembled and fashioned to the timeless restorative of Alsace varietals, albeit in an exhilerating new world style, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Gewurztraminer, are concurrently harvested, crushed and destemmed, a gentle pressing separates the free run juices into fermenters, the solids into a mix of 1000L oak oval tuns and 225L French barriques for natural vinification and course of textural lees stirring battonage. Brimming with lychees, mandarin and spiced ginger pear, its underlying textural richness makes Yealands a cinch alongside the perfect crackling pork roast.

$2499each $299DOZEN EACH DOZEN

Yealands Seaview Vineyard is exposed to some of the toughest growing conditions in Marlborough, high sunshine and billowing winds wind, cool nights and low rainfalls for a smaller, thicker skinned Pinot Gris of exciting intensity. Fruit from the relatively flat, coastal L6M block, provides a pure mineral elegance to the structural backbone. Parcels from E6 block, picked off a sheltered north facing slope, contributes luscious ripe pear and quince characters. A drier, food friendly style of alluring lychee appeal and charming spiced pear complexity.

$2499each $299DOZEN EACH DOZEN

$2499each $299DOZEN EACH DOZEN