Sauv Stories
Sauvignon Blanc is the perfect white grape for summer time! Crisp and refreshing with vibrant acidity. As with all grapes it will vary depending on where it is grown and the style of the winemaker. Find out which story is your favorite!
Le Coeur de la Reine
Grapes : 100% Sauvigon Blanc
Place : Touraine - France
Process : These vines average 30 years in age and are meticulously tended by the family. Short-cane pruning, selective ploughing, spring de-budding, deleafing, grass cover throughout the vineyard and green harvest practices all lend to limited yields and best quality fruit at harvest.
Skin maceration for 60% of the cuvée for 6 hours, gentle pneumatic pressing, and a cool maceration (5°C/41°F) for 7 days. Fermentation at 17°C/63°F for 3-4 weeks followed by elevage in tank on the lees.
Family : A collaboration with Rodolphe & Ludivine Marteau and Vincent Leclair - both fourth generation families in Touraine. The Marteaus took over their family’s estate in 2010 which is a 29 hectare property is located on South bank of the river Cher, on siliceous-argilo (clay and flint) soils. Vincent assumed leadership in 2014 at his family’s 45 hectare estate in Pouillé, in the Cher Valley.
Bottle: $23 | Glass: $9
Vendimia Nocturna ‘Yllera’
Grapes : 100% Sauvigon Blanc
Place : Rueda - Castilla y León, Spain
Process :
Grape sorting in the vineyard. Mechanical night harvest (to preserve freshness of the grape). Exclusively juice from the first press in pneumatic press. Cold skin contact maceration for 8– 12 hours. Alcoholic fermentation controlled at 17ºC (62ºF) in stainless steel vats. Settling and cold stabilisation of the must before bottling.
Family :
Varieties Verdejo, Sauvignon Blanc, Tempranillo and Chardonnay. Vineyards over 15 years old with a high percentage of old vineyards with low production, limited yields, lower than those accepted by the regulatory councils and grapes harvested at the optimum point of suitability and ripeness.
To make our wines we have more than 150 hectares of our own vineyards, in addition to controlling more than 900 hectares in the Rueda, Ribera del Duero and Toro areas with a team of engineers and oenologists.
Bottle: $19 | Glass: $8
Pavette
Grapes : 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Place : California
Process : Grapes picked at just over 21 Brix. Cool and slow fermentation over ten days in stainless steel tank with no malolactic conversion.
Six months elevage.
Family : PEACOCK :: Genus name Pavo
páv (croatian) / pavón (galician) / pavone (italian) / pavo real (spanish)
LITTLE :: -ette (diminutive as in vignette, kitchenette or cigarette)
PAV + ETTE :: PAVETTE (little peacock)
This is the daily drinking line of wines from Rob Fisher.
Price : $17 btl | $6 gls
Black Cottage
Grapes : 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Place : Marlborough - New Zealand
Process : With a long drawn-out summer, without excessive heat waves, our grapes were allowed to gain physiological ripeness at lower than normal sugar levels. Our harvest decisions were made purely on flavour rather brix levels. The wines are light on their feet with expressive aromatics, great energy, and fresh lively acidity with a tight structure on the palate. The wine went through a long, cool fermentation in stainless steel tanks to maximise fruit purity and varietal character.
Family : Nestled amongst vineyards, native plantings, olive trees, a cricket ground and lying alongside Marlborough’s Ōpaoa River, Founder Dave Clouston and Winemaker Sanna Stander use the black cottage to host international guests and friends alike. Days are spent playing cricket, clay bird shooting, cooking fresh fish on the BBQ and drinking delicious wine. The company is fun, life is good. Welcome to Black Cottage… You will not want to leave.
Price : $23 btl | $9 gls