Lake Chalice The Raptor
Sauvignon Blanc
A limited release expression consisting of small parcels of fruit from Dillons Point in Marlborough. This Sauvignon Blanc is a rich and elegant wine, showing impressive weight and complexity.
Imagine you are in a small woodland picking and collecting passionfruit. Emerging from the woods, you hear and see the blue waters of a river surrounded by boulders and rounded rocks.
2023 The Raptor Sauvignon Blanc 2023
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.
Purchase
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
Info
- Serving Temp
- 8-12ºC
- Alcohol
- 12.5%
- Total Acidity
- 7.5g/L
- Residual Sugar
- 1.0g/L
- pH
- 3.32
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