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
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
Bodegas Yllera
Grapes : 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Place : Rueda - Spain
Process : Sustainable Farming. Tradtional Winemaking practices. Harvested at night to preserve the freshness of the grapes.
Family : Bodegas Yllera was founded in the early 1970s by the brothers Jesús and Pepe Yllera, fifth generation of a family of winegrowers known as “Los Curros”, who started making the first “modern” Verdejo wines in Rueda.
Bottle: $19 | Glass: $8
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