Holdaway Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2025

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Holdaway Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2025

$32.00 NZD

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Vineyard: Holdaway Vineyard
Subregion: Dillons Point | Lower Wairau
Region: Marlborough
Vintage: 2025
Soil Type: Deep alluvial silts over sand
Clone: Mass selection
Viticulture: Regenerative viticulture
Growers: The Holdaway Family

Appellation Marlborough Wine Certified (AMW) | Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Vegan | Vegetarian

This single vineyard rendition of Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from the Holdaway Family vineyard at Dillons Point – our favourite sub region for the variety. It is a classic expression of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, being 100% tank fermented, but it offers complexity of texture and a mineral drive that summons river stones and sea spray. Blackcurrant, guava and passionfruit are captured alongside the subtlest hint of oyster-shell. This wine is focused and explosive on both nose and palate yet remains elegantly balanced and distinctly salty.

Our winemaking philosophy with this wine is simple: let the vineyard speak — capture the pure essence of Marlborough fruit and translate terroir into the bottle without adding anything that masks its voice.

To honour that intent, grapes were machine-harvested in the cool of night to preserve bright acidity and delicate aromatics, then crushed and gently pressed to avoid skin-driven phenolics before the juice was transferred straight to stainless steel.

The must settled naturally and fermented at cool temperatures to retain primary fruit expression, then spent time on light lees to build silky texture and mouthfeel, before a gentle crossflow filtration and bottling.

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Reviews

5 STARS

"This single-vineyard wine is grown at Dillons Point, in the lower Wairau Valley. Harvested from vines averaging 25 years old, the vigorous 2025 vintage was tank-fermented, aged briefly on its light yeast lees and bottled by August. Pale lemon/green, it is mouth-filling and dry (2 grams/litre of residual sugar), with pure, well-ripened, passionfruit/lime flavours, showing excellent intensity, and a crisp, finely textured, sustained finish. Best drinking mid-2026+."

- Michael Cooper MA ONZM

95 Points

"A cracking Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. The colour is lemon/green. This is beautifully constructed, refined and focused, with direction, great length and immaculate balance. The nose offers tropical hints with gooseberries, hints of passionfruit and citrus. A vibrant style which dances across the palate. There is great length here. A wine which can be enjoyed over the next half dozen years. If you like Sauvignon Blanc, this is for you."

- Ken Gargett | Wine Pilot

9-9.5 Points

"Palest gold in color, this wine smells of blackcurrant leaf and lime zest with a hint of wet wool. In the mouth, stony flavors of lemon pith, green apple, black currant leaf, and wet wool have an interesting savory quality and a faintly chalky texture. Excellent acidity with a stony resonance in the finish. Regeneratively farmed fruit, 25-year-old vines, machine harvested. Fermented in stainless steel and matured on light lees."

- Alder Yarrow | vinography.com

93 Points

"From the Holdaway vineyard in Dillons Point, which is farmed regeneratively. Amazing aromatics of elderflower, tomato leaf and green pepper. Crystalline palate with lemon and grapefruit, as well as some green pepper, and keen acidity. Such lovely fruit here: it’s an amazing expression of Marlborough Sauvignon."

- Jamie Goode | Wine Anorak

18.5 Points

"Made by winemakers Matt Thomson and Master of Wine Sophie Parker‑Thomson, this single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc captures the fresh, bright character of new‑wave Marlborough with its smooth, lees influence building body and complex savoury notes to flatter the fruit aromas."

- Joelle Thomson

17 Points

"All the classic Marlborough aromas of capsicum, blackcurrant leaf and a touch of passion fruit but without being overly pungent. In the mouth, this is surprisingly rich, gently chewy and creamy at the same time. The texture has added to the depth first provided by the fruit. Firm, mouth-filling and fresh. No unwanted sweeteness so it finishes long, salty and dry. A complex style that still highlights Sauvignon’s fruit profile. I think it must be quite difficult to make distinctive Sauvignon Blanc but this is distinct in its depth and complexity while retaining vibrant fruit without going down the reduction/struck-match route. Not one of the cheapest Marlborough Sauvignons but GV. Really long finish – with that lovely leesy grip. "

- Julia Harding MW | jancisrobinson.com

SELECTED - 2025 AMW COLLECTION

"Each year, Appellation Marlborough Wine selects a standout group of Sauvignon Blancs that reflect the best of Marlborough. These wines demonstrate excellence in origin, authenticity, and craft. The Collection represents different subregions, winemaking styles, and the diversity of Marlborough’s terroir — all underpinned by AMW’s strict certification."

- Appellation Marlborough Wine Annual Collection

Selected Top 10 Tasting - NZ Sauvignon Blanc 2025

"‘Alongside some signature Marlborough flavours of passionfruit and white currant and pink grapefruit, there is something that has hints of Chablis in the dry minerality and salty acidity as well. “Love the acidity and ‘seed’ tones through the palate” appear in the tasting notes. Some richness and depth are also a feature, before a finish that carries for some distance – pithy and dry.’"