Lake Chalice The Raptor

Sauvignon Blanc

As you wash your passionfruit in the river, something surprising happens. The river is no longer blue. Instead, from one side to the other, it is completely covered with grapefruits bobbing downstream in the current. You grab one from the water and smell the intense perfume of its ripe skin. Let’s have a taste. Tear open that passionfruit -it’s real - and have few of those grapefruits. Glorious, isn’t it? Can you taste the minerals and salts from the river too? Later, on the news, you hear that a truck spilt its entire cargo of grapefruit off a bridge into the river. Turns out you’re not going crazy after all. Open this Raptor Sauvignon Blanc 2023, and we’ll prove it.

Region

Dillons Point, Marlborough.

Style

Rich, full and generous.

Winemaker

Chloe Gabrielsen

Vinification

The grapes were machine harvested in the cool of the evening and carefully fermented at low temperatures to retain the freshness of the fruit.

Appearance

Pale Green.

Bouquet

Intensely perfumed with white stone fruits, salty minerality and passionfruit notes.

Palate

Generous and full, layered with crunchy greens, mango, passionfruit and pomegranate, this wine is also underpinned by salt and mineral notes with a concentrated long finish.

Cellaring

Enjoy now and over the next 5 years. But we won’t judge you if you open it the second you get it home. As long as it’s still chilled.

Vegan

Vegan friendly

Packaging

6 x 750mL bottles, screw cap closure

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