Abstract | Three Rows Sauvignon Blanc 2024

$60.00 NZD

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Vineyard: Holdaway Vineyard
Subregion: Dillons Point | Lower Wairau
Region: Marlborough
Vintage: 2024
Soil Type: Deep alluvial silts over sand
Clone: Mass selection
Viticulture: Dry-farmed and regenerative
Growers: The Holdaway Family

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

If classic Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is all fruit and zing, Abstract exists in another dimension altogether. It’s our savoury blanc, where texture and aromatic complexity bedazzle, and where vineyard and winemaking contribute equally. There’s an intense and seductive perfume of blackcurrant and white florals, while winemaking lends savouriness and flinty minerality. The must is wild fermented in French oak puncheons and matured on lees for 15 months, delivering a sumptuous richness and complexity to the palate. With elegance and beautiful balance, it is for enjoyment now but will age with grace and dignity.

Unfined | Unfiltered

Abstract is a study in terroir refined by deliberate, restrained winemaking to showcase fruit purity and textural depth. Hand-harvested from the Abstract block on 31 March 2023, the fruit was whole-bunch pressed and the pristine free-run juice sent straight to French oak puncheons (15% new) without settling.

Fermentation was left to wild yeast, beginning naturally after 3–5 days, and the wine completed natural malolactic fermentation during the warmer spring months. The wine matured on fine lees for 15 months with no stirring, was gently racked off lees and bottled unfiltered on 9 July 2024 delivering textural complexity, precision and the structure for long ageing.

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Reviews

5 STARS

"Designed as an ageworthy 'Savoury Blanc', the 2024 vintage (*****) was hand-harvested in the Holdaway Vineyard, at Dillons Point, fermented and matured on its yeast lees for 15 months in French oak puncheons (15 per cent new), and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Bright, light lemon/green, with a fragrant, complex bouquet, it is mouthfilling and savoury, with strong, ripe fruit flavours, gently seasoned with biscuity oak, finely balanced acidity and a smooth, persistent finish. A very harmonious, energetic and distinctive wine, with funky notes adding complexity, it's already drinking well, but worth cellaring too."

- Michael Cooper MA ONZM

96 Points

"Fantastic wine with a powerful statement about fruit selection, site and winemaker’s (both of them) passion and command of this variety and style. Wild flowers and white fleshed fruits, a mineral saline quality spoken through the mist of lees and subtle barrel-ferment suggestions. Delicious, complex, dry and lengthy. A wine that just keeps giving with flavours of citrus and white fleshed fruits, a tropical white tea quality and fresh sage idea. Lengthy, textured, salivating and ready to drink from day of purchase through 2032+."

- Cameron Douglas MS

Excellent to Outstanding

"Bright, vibrant nose, ripe gooseberry, a touch of smoke/wet wool, spices, preserved lemon, capsicum and cut grass developing with air. Ripely fruited, flitting between tropical fruit and gooseberry, a grassy undertow, this hits the classical SB buttons but with a bit of class. A little prickle on the palate, just bursting with flavour, great intensity and carry."